An increase in developers developing applications for OpenSolaris and an
increase in people using an OpenSolaris distribution. It's reaching out
to an audience that has been ignoring OpenSolaris. Embracing more
people, making more friends, gets more people talking about you,
participating, and developing with you. Growing the population.
I think the effect of increasing the number of kernel developers will be
minimal. There aren't that many kernel developers in the world.
Richard Lowe wrote:
Stephen Harpster wrote:
Yes, but the same argument holds. This can happen today. CDDL has
file boundaries. You can create a fork of ZFS and innovate all you
want. If your innovations remain in separate files, you don't have
to publish them or contribute them back.
The entirety of this discussion has been you saying "I don't think it
will make anything worse", and people outlining reasons that it could.
Other benefits that have been suggested have been largely shown to not
actually change anything.
I'll ask again (for the 3rd time). What is the benefit that you see
coming out of this?
Does this all come down to Sun getting good PR? Because a license
change for that reason would be, is, and always will be, entirely
inappropriate.
-- Rich
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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