>Stephen Harpster wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Won't it only open us up to projects that use GPLv3 with the same assembly
>exception? "Pure" GPLv3 projects will be able to take our code, but we
>won't be able to use theirs unless they relicense with the exception.
Quite. And I think that sidestepping the exception is wrong.
To use my playground analogy:
The OS Kid: "Can I play with you?"
Other Kids: "We won't play with you, you're not GPL"
The OS Kid, relicenses under the GPL with exception: "Hello,
I'm relicensed, will you play with me now?"
Other Kids: "That's not the proper GPL; give us your lunch money
and get out of here".
Unless GPLv3 is phrased such that the assembly "exception" is the norm,
this won't buy is anything, PR wise.
To claim that the GPL was instrumental in "Sun getting it" for Java is
a fallacious argument; Java's previous license was not conductive to
Open development
Casper
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