Stephen Harpster wrote: > > > Alan Burlison wrote:
>> >> >> And if OpenSolaris is endorsed by the FSF - so what? I personally >> think the FSF is mostly irrelevant to grass-roots open source people, >> and the people who are already dissing us will just claim that we >> bought out the FSF - you can't change paranoia by trying to pander to >> it. We'd get a 2 week flurry of press releases, and after that >> nobody would care. We were beaten up for many, many years about the >> Java licensing, but I can't see that releasing Java under GPLv2 has >> made everyone suddenly want to have our (metaphorical) babies. > > The big bonus is that GPLv3 will open us up to a whole new audience. > Linux aside, there are plenty of other big projects that will combine > with OpenSolaris more easily if we're dual licensed. To be > successful, you want to reach out to as many communities as possible. > The more friends the better. GPLv3 will give us that. > How do we know when GPLv3 hasn't been finalised? I'd be interested in knowing which big projects these are. It might just be my perspective, but I couldn't care less about the license, it isn't the reason why I haven't been able to contribute more. I'd even go so far as to speculate that I'm not in a minority. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
