On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Erast Benson wrote:

> 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.

I submit that the license is not why there are fewer external contributions
than we'd like.  I think it's because it's an onerous process at the moment,
and perhaps because people might be wary of signing a Contributor Agreememnt.

If anything, I think people are "afraid" to contribute to non-Sun CDDLed
projects is because of FUD spread by the anti-CDDL factions.  I remember
some assertions that said words to the effect of "ownership of any CDDLed
code reverts to Sun", when that is patently not the case.

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