>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.
Well, the GPLv3 only fork can easily mirror all changes (the bulk of which is not likely to affect them at first). >On the other hand, if everyone moved lock, stock and barrel over to >the fork, there still shouldn't be much of an issue - after all, >the Nextenta's, Schillix's and Belinix's etc of the world shouldn't >have a problem with using the GPL'd versions then, either. >Yes, some users who themselves ca not use GPL'd stuff might be >disenfranchised, so they wouldn't like this option. The key >uncertainty here is whether it would effect Sun. I'm not sure >(but IANAL) it would. they would; the GPL'ed version would not allow the distributions to include non-GPL device drivers. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
