Hi Everyone, Normally I try to stay out of such politics, but I have to put my $0.02 in:)
Hopefully, OpenSolaris will not fall under any GPL license. The CDDL works well. Point in fact look at how features (Dtrace and ZFS) from OpenSolaris are being ported to the BSD's and finally to MacOS X (which some would argue is the largest consumer base market for a Unix). If there was something wrong with this model, then how could such ports work? What value would it bring to have OpenSolaris licensed under GPL (regardless of the version)? What is the aim of such changes? Obviously one can port features and contribute already. If the goal is to build a bridge to Linux, one would have to question the thinking there. Where would that lead us? By differentiating OpenSolaris we provide an OS that stands out the way MacOS X stands out from Windows or Linux. The real question is how can we provide value and functionality in OpenSolaris to stand out from the other OS's? Perhaps some people are too caught up in the "open source = GPL" thinking? Which is unfortunate. We should address this in some manner, but changing licensing won't do the trick. We really have to identify what will drive developer and user interest. Is it a matter of approachability, installation, bundled software, etc? These are hard questions, but they really should be asked and addressed before doing something drastic like changing the licensing of the OS itself. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/ http://unixconsole.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:24:02 AM Subject: [osol-discuss] GPLv3 Never could have ever imagined that this was going to happen, but looks like it is: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL011507EP28A ( Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
