John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some enterprising team immediately forks and strips off the
> CDDL license, making a pure GPLv3 version of OpenSolaris/ON.
>
> 2 weeks later, OpenSolaris/ON Build x+1 comes out
> (or the Hg repository gate is updated or ...)
> and the fork is a little bit out of date.
>
> ...repeat every 2 weeks...
> and each time the fork gets more out of date.
>
> Unless everyone stopped contributing to the OpenSolaris project and
> rehosted themselves over to the fork, the fork maintainers will be
> forced to either ignore the OpenSolaris changes, or spend more and
> more time resyncing their fork - neither of which is long-term
> feasible. Sure, some would use this fork, and would be happy.
> Good for them. Sure, this splits the community a bit, but not
> fatally for OpenSolaris.
You are right. You may see this with the cdrtools fork, but the
real problem is from another side:
The Debian guys did take the cdrtools version from 12 months ago,
started to do useless changes on it and mainly destroyed portability
and equal behavior on all OS. Meanwhile the original project did
massively improve.
The problem is that Debian claims that the original has license problems
and that there is no development in the oroginal and there are just too
many people who believe this. I expect that Debian will be able to mess
around people this way for at least 2 years.
Do you like to start another similar enterprise?
Jörg
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