[ I stand up and applaud Darren ] > The following is my *personal* opinion - I shouldn't have to say this > but since I'm posting from an @Sun.COM address I'm making it explicit. > > Having had to deal with the import into Solaris of several open source > projects before OpenSolaris started up and after it my opinions are > based on that. I have spent a non trivial amount of time talking with > Sun Legal about license/trademark/patent/export law and have I think an > above average (for a developer) understanding of the issues. > > * Dual licensing is far to complex for developers to understand. It is > hard enough for lawyers to understand for incomming unmodified source, > never mind the problems with derived works and ongoing participation. > > * I see no value in GPLv3 over CDDL only downside, particularly if is a > dual license. Especially given the "conflict" between CDDL being > "files" based and GPL being "project". > > More importantly I see no statement of what problem we are actually > trying to solve by using a license other than the CDDL. Exactly how is > the CDDL not working for us ? What do we really expect to gain by using > a GPL license as well as or instead of CDDL ? > > Note that I'm NOT anti GPL I has its place. I really like what CDDL > offers and I think that it was and still is the correct choice for > OpenSolaris. It allows this community to potentially fill an area that > GPL licensed operating systems can not. > > The above is my *personal* opinion - I shouldn't have to say this but > since I'm posting from an @Sun.COM address I'm making it explicit.
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