>We're wondering if this would increase participation. There are a lot >of GPL bigots out there. If OpenSolaris were available under GPL, would >there be more people willing to participate who have to date ignored us >because we're CDDL only?
Please remove GPL from the second sentence; then re-read it. Does it really make sense to attract *any* kind of bigot? Bigots are irrational; the way they express their irrational preferences and fears is only an expression of their general feeling of insecurity and inadequacy. The pick one particular focus and if you deflect that, they won't suddenly overcome their feelings; they'll just focus on the next thing. >Also, the thinking is that the open source community at large will adopt >GPLv3 and hence a dual-license would make it easier to have OpenSolaris >use that larger body of work. Of course, that presumes that the open >source community accepts GPLv3. If they don't, then dual-license may >not buy us anything..... I'm afraid that's an example of group-think. There are many reasons to believe that this will not happen. The feelings in the Linux camp seem to run so high that I, for one, would not be surprised of a GPLv2-only fork of things interesting to Linux. I'd suggest that we focus on the things at hand; things that are most important to the community: commit access, more open source. We can't attract more developers if we don't finish our development processes first. The current suggestion is like running a french restaurant and complaining about the lack of customers; since some prospective customers have said they really like mexican food, you suggest adding mexican to the menu. But looking out of the window I see that there's no road, only a parking lot. Let's focus on fixing the road first. I see you're also suggesting GPLv3 "with the assembly exception"; this, to me, seems to be enough for a GPL bigot to refocus and say, yeah, that's just the CDDL under a different name. We didn't used to be so insecure at Sun; why has this changed? Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
