> Stephen Harpster writes: >> 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.
As well as the example Jim says, the other likely more scenario is: * Someone takes a small-but-interesting part of OpenSolaris such as ZFS (rather than the whole thing), and ports this to run on Linux. * This gets released as GPLv3 only, and is hosted somewhere else. Not because of an intentional fork, but because the code needed to be changed and the contributors don't want to submit a bunch of ARC reviews for permission to add "#ifdef LINUX" all over the ZFS code, OpenSolaris does not want to take Linux-only changes, or other completely valid reasons. [1] * A bunch of new and interesting features get added, but are GPLv3-only. Again, not necessarily because of any intent to be anti-CDDL, but just because the project is forked. * OpenSolaris proper can't then use the enhancements due to the license. Granted the GPL v2/v3 conflict may make this more difficult for the Linux kernel proper. But maybe not impossible. Hugh. [1] For example, I don't think there's any existing "#ifdef APPLE" in the Dtrace code. Which means a fork already happened. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
