On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:56 -0800, Stephen Harpster wrote: > 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. >
The main technical reason I can see for doing this is to allow (linux) drivers to be ported to opensolaris. I'd imagine that there are quite a few linux drivers which are GPLv2 or later, these could be ported to opensolaris if we added GPLv3 licensing. Other than that technical issue it may bring about *some* extra goodwill from the FSF zealots - IMO we shouldn't cater to extremists. The main problem I see with porting the (GPLv3) linux drivers to opensolaris is that the owners of that code probably won't want to dual-license it under the CDDL... this in turn creates pressure for a GPLv3 only fork of opensolaris: something which is definitely very bad for the opensolaris community. -Mark Isn't the major problem the fact that s > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org