On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:38 +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Erast Benson wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Which changelog ?
> 
> Are you looking at all consolidations or just ON ?  ON I'm told only 
> makes up about 20% of Sun's Solaris product and probably even less of a 
> distro like Nextana I suspect.

No matter how you count, I don't think you will see significant numbers.
My guess it will be less than 0.1% overall. But, would be nice to count
real number.

> I take your point though it would be great to have more, I'm just not 
> personally convinced that a license change is what will change that 
> because I don't think the license is what that problem is.

Right. Re-licensing alone would be just a first step to resolve this
problem. There are many other micro-steps we need to do. Like get rid
off closed bins, most serious next step to do.

-- 
Erast

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