Alan DuBoff wrote:
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).
Agreed, but those things are in progress and the team doing the work is
different. That work will get done no matter what gets decided about
dual-licensing. There is no dependency between the two.
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.
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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