Erast Benson wrote On 02/01/07 03:20,:
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
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.
http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/
Now, how many people we see contributing to Blastwave, SchiliX, BeleniX,
Nexenta and Martux all together? 5-15?
SchilliX, BeleniX, Nexenta, and Martux didn't exist before OpenSolaris.
The fact that they now do exist is excellent and demonstrates success
(to this level, anyway) of the code, community, and the license. So,
they build from there. What's the problem?
OpenSolaris code contributors are mostly here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/
http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/arc_table/
There are a few others that contribute to projects that are not
integrated, I understand. But at 20 months, I'm actually very impressed
with that list of (code) contributions. We shouldn't only focus on code,
though, because that doesn't consider other ways people participate.
If you still think we don't have problems with our community, think
again please. But I believe if GPLv3 dual-licensing is done right, it
will improve this situation drastically.
I would hope that any dual licensing strategy would help the community
grow. Or else why do it, right? But I would also hope that people don't
think we are having this discussion because of any faults with CDDL.
That's just not the case. Harpster and others are clear about that.
Jim
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