On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:42 -0800, Rich Teer wrote: > 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.
I agree, re-licensing alone will not cure us entirely but will help dramatically. Its a combination of steps. 1) Re-licensing, 2) get rid of Contributor Agreement, 3) get rid of closed bins. > 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. and we don't want to constantly fight against this FUD... -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
