Rich Teer wrote On 01/17/07 02:43,:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
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
Nothing is certain yet (to my knowledge), but I know of at least
two CAB members who have serious reservations about this idea.
Hi ...
Perhaps the CAB/OGB will lead an open discussion about this at some
point, so the community can give Sun the best possible feedback on this
rumor or any license consideration.
Personally, I really welcome this as a potential move for OpenSolaris.
And who knows (I surely don't ... I'm never involved in licensing
discussions), maybe it will happen and maybe not. So far all we have is
cloaked "sources" in one media outlet. That's not very much.
However, it's well known that Sun has been involved in GPL v3
conversations all long, Java and OpenSPARC went out GPL v2, and
GlassFish is GPLv2/CDDL. So if the company is actually considering v3 as
an addition to CDDL for OpenSolaris, why not? Wouldn't that make sense?
The company has a portfolio of open software that is unmatched at this
point, so I'm sure the license gods are always considering the best
strategy for a given piece of code. CDDL is a great license and it
solved some major problems we had when opening this code, so I can't
imagine it going away (which some are concerned about). But a dual
strategy looks interesting. Also, there will be an enormous amount of
software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we
want to grow faster?
We've been an open community for about a year and a half now, so our
voices matter.
Jim
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