On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: > As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that > dual licensing is trying to solve?
one little problem... to become a major OSS community out there. And today, after 1.5 year of our existence we are still a minority (community-wise), and unfortunately, this is true. Just open b56 changelog and try to find how many people outside of Sun contributed to it to happen? None or one! And I bet Sun would like to increase outside contribution too but with CDDL alone it is just not possible in foreseeable future. People afraid to contribute to CDDL projects for variety of reasons, look how cdrecord has been forked to be pure GPL project just because of that. http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ Now, how many people we see contributing to Blastwave, SchiliX, BeleniX, Nexenta and Martux all together? 5-15? If you still think we don't have problems with our community, think again please. But I believe if GPLv3 dual-licensing is done right, it will improve this situation drastically. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
