On Thu 09/28/06 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nicolas Linkert wrote: > >The question is: What can SUN do to put things straight? Because it > >desperately needs to get things straight. In terms of OSS not SUN is the > >authority, butr the FSF is. If that authority advises you not to use the > >CDDL, you simply won't touch it. Therefore it's necessary that SUN talks > >to the FSF. > > The FSF is most certainly NOT the authority for Open Source software. > Even they wouldn't claim that. FSF isn't interested in Open Source > they are interested in Free software. > > There is no authority for Free or Open source software, there are only > opinions, factions, and followers.
The authority for Open Source software is the Open Source Initiative. They own the trademark on the term "Open Source", they decide which licenses may call themselves Open Source, and they have determined that CDDL is an Open Source license. CDDL may not fit into the FSF's political agenda, but I don't believe it's productive to engage in any discussion in which that is assumed to be de facto a Bad Thing. Unless the FSF is saying that we are not Open Source, I disagree with the previous poster's assertion that we have anything to "get straight". Nils _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
