[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you friend does not understand much of licensing; one of the nice things of the CDDL is that it allows you to build things without having to go to the trouble to publish all your modifications.
As the friend in question, I'm going to have to say that there are very very good reasons for what I suggested :)
I also know that there is quite a bit of room for reasonable minds to disagree, which is why I don't get all zealous about the GPL.
Honestly, the bottom line is that CDDL won't be too inhibiting in terms of community-building - that will depend on how you guys go about your outreach efforts, particularly wrt groups like nexenta (apologies if I mispelled that). Considering that the GPL forces derivative works (read: other companies' products built on your code) to release the code, there's a reason why companies like my own, Hyperic, choose it to release software. I see very solid business benefits to using the GPL, and this has nothing to do with DFSG, FSF, GNU/Debian, GNU/Stallman, or any other such nonsense. I can see arguments going the other way, of course, but at the moment I disagree with many of them.
The fact that Eben Moglen has said that there's no meat to the GPL and CDDL incompatibilities, at least where Nexenta is concerned, should eventually clear out all of that riffraff, anyway. In the end, I have my preferences and you of yours, and I don't think there is an absolute wrong or right in that discussion.
-John Mark Walker Hyperic Community Outreach http://www.hyperic.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
