Stephen:
In my opinion, one concern is how well GPLv3 will be accepted by the
FreeSoftware community. In my discussions with maintainers of various
FreeSoftware projects (currently under GPLv2), they seem unsure about
whether they will want to move to GPLv3 or not. GPLv3 will only be a
good move, in my opinion, if it is accepted by the FreeSoftware
community. I think it is a bit early to tell, since GPLv3 isn't
done yet.
Brian
Ugh. Here's the de-HTML'ed one.... Sorry.....
In the last few months I've seen more and more speculation about the
prospect of dual-licensing OpenSolaris under GPLv3. In November
Jonathan very publically asked Rich if he would look into it, and
everyone knows that we are fully engaged in the GPLv3 process. As Rich
has made clear, we're looking into it. No decisions have been made.
We've seen discussions in blogs and in the news, but I haven't seen much
in the OpenSolaris community itself.
I think that we ("we" being all of you) should be asking ourselves what
we think about GPLv3. What would it
mean to the community if we dual-licensed? It's now a possibility that
we could attach an "assembly exception"
to the GPLv3 which would let us mix GPL and CDDL code. This could open
up a world of possibilities.
But what are the downsides? What does the community, you, think of the
way GPLv3 is taking shape? These are important issues and I urge
everyone with an opinion to voice it sooner rather than later.
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