Stephen Harpster writes: > > Stack against that the issues we will have to endure if we dual > > license - the potential for one license to be ripped off and the > > source forked *incompatibly* (the incompatibility is the important > > bit), the inability to move bug fixes between versions, the confusion > > that dual-licensing will bring (just what *is* an "assembly exception" > > anyway?). > Very unlikely that a source fork will happen. Let's face it. Most of > the people who know and understand all the intricacies of OpenSolaris > source code work at Sun. Who's going to fork? How will they maintain > that fork? Constantly chase opensolaris.org? And what happens if their > new incompatible changes don't work with the changes they pull from > opensolaris.org? It's not practical and I can't imagine it happening.
I can. If the source becomes available under GPL, then an obvious fix to the community's well-justified[1] frustration with our lack of openness, speed, and flexibility in bug tracking, development, and integration becomes possible. All that someone has to do is set up a CVS server with Bugzilla somewhere on the 'net, allow a simple registration process, and prohibit the use of anything but GPL. Heck, putting it on sourceforge or the like would probably do the trick. This then becomes a _rival_ project to Open Solaris. They can take new bits from opensolaris.org if they want, or they can just not care to do so. They instead build an open community. The result is a fracture over control issues that are akin to those afflicting Zebra versus Quagga and some other open source projects. If I had to place money on one of those horses to win, it almost certainly wouldn't be the one saddled with a complex multi-license scheme, fragmentary bug tracking, and developmental problems. I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie before. [1] Yes, I know we've made great progress. That's not the point. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
