On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:45 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: > After viewing the video from Debconf6, I can say the following:
I did watch this video a couple days ago. Ironically, Don Armstrong (I only knew him as Don in the video) was at the Debian booth today at LinuxWorld. Don actually seems very reasonable, and I hope that Sun can work with folks like Don and Debian Legal to come to some agreement. This community should at least let Sun figure out how to deal with it. > While Simon was very informative and correct, Danese Cooper did > unfortunately claim that Sun developers did like to make the CDDL > incompatible to the GPL by intention. If you carefully watch the video, you > see that Simon did not like this but preferred not to respond in order to > avoid a dispute. I strongly feel the engineers were mis-represented, at least the ones I know in Solaris Engineering. There seemed to be a lot of contention between Danese Cooper stating that the engineers wanted the license to be incompatible with the GPL, purposely, and I think that was mis-interpeted by the audience. It was apparent in how many Qs about that specific followed, there was at least 3. Generalized comments about what the engineers felt is unfair, since there was a wide scope of what each of them felt should have been done. > Unfortunately, the total effect on the Debian people was that they > remembered the (wrong) claim from Danese but forgot about all the correct > information from Simon. I believe Simon could have said some better things, and certainly Danese could have given more encouraging words. Simon faces a large problem in that he represents Sun Legal, Sun Management, and Solaris Engineering, and this is a very broad range of areas within Sun to represent. So, let's give Sun a chance to look at and understand any license issues between CDDL and Debian/GPL and/or free/non-free, ok? Please let Sun work this issue so it doesn't turn into a flamefest, which is how the past email exchanged is described as. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
