On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:34 am, Stephen Harpster wrote: > 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?
Stephen, Speculating about participation based on a license is far fetched. There are many other things that would help assist that more than a license, such as Source Code Management, Bug Reporting, and full access to all Sun cases (if that piece is not done already, I think much of ARC is). > 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 don't see why they won't, but we'll have to wait until it is out to see. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
