Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Lowe wrote:
> > This topic came up at OSCON, so perhaps that's where you heard the
> > rumblings coming from. Both Jonathan and Simon are admitted fans of the
> > draft GPLv3, and Sun has used GPL before (see OpenSPARC). Even so, the
> > license can't be changed until all the encumbered code is out, and that
> > will take quite awhile (still).
>
> You can't change to GPL only, but you could dual-license, to allow those
> who get the code the choice to distribute under either CDDL or GPL - those
> distributing with closed binaries like OpenSolaris distros would choose CDDL,
> those who wanted to integrate portions into GPL software would choose that.
Dual licensing is a bad idea:
If someone write add ons and uses GPL only for this code, Sun could not use it
in Sun Solaris.
Jörg
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