IANALOASE[], but I am the engineering manager for OpenSolaris. There
have been no discussions about switching OpenSolaris licensing to an
existing or future version of GPL.
This is why you haven't seen members of the OpenSolaris jumping into the
discussion very much. I apologize for not making a definitive statement
earlier.
- Karyn
[] I am not a lawyer or a Sun executive...
Joerg Schilling wrote:
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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