On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:56 -0800, Stephen Harpster wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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