On Thursday 01 February 2007 02:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >A friend mentioned to me today that it was interesting that Sun licensed > > Java under GPLv2, but Solaris under CDDL, and that it would have seemed > > more logical to license them the other way around. On the surface this is > > true, but for those that know what is underneath the surface, know that > > it couldn't be GPL even if folks wanted that, due to the contents as a > > whole. > > 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.
You always say this of people, but the cold hard truth is that most all people that use computers do not want to have to think like a lawyer to understand if they can use the software or not. These are the same people that wonder why after close to 2 years, open source software that is in Sun's Solaris distribution are not in OpenSolaris. When they ask why Xorg, GNOME, CUPs, or any other technology that is included in Solaris is not in OpenSolaris at this time, I'm not sure what to say other than "Sun is slow", but maybe I should change that to, "you don't understand licensing" as a catch all...:-/ From the outside, this is how folks view what Sun is doing. They see some of the things that Sun does and scratch their head. It's not as though Sun is doing the wrong thing, they just don't communicate with the community very well when they do many of these things, so the community is in the dark. -- 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]
