On Wednesday 31 January 2007 02:14 pm, Stephen Harpster wrote: > 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.
I guess that if participation is the concern, and the reason you directed your question as worded above, I think it would be of more value to focus on these itesm like SCM, bugster, and full process exposure, rather than the license. Both are important, don't get me wrong, but the license is in no way "low-hanging-fruit" (not that the other items listed are). -- 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]
