Akhilesh Mritunjai writes: > > Alex Leverington writes: > > This is much the same thing. It's open source. Get > > over it. If > > someone wants to use it, that's good. If they're > > willing to talk with > > the people who invented it, then that's *great*. > > Riiight... that's why we usually see people putting stuff in public domain - > no ? or in BSD - no ?
I don't understand your question. The choice of license to use is the author's alone. In the case of the OpenSolaris code I thought we were supposed to discuss on opensolaris-discuss, Sun chose CDDL, which is an OSI-approved license. You're right that it could have chosen some other license. Whether others can or can't use some software because of the license doesn't seem to me like an issue that the development group can do much about. Let's please not revive the silly license wars of months past. We can just #include them to the thread and be done with it. > > That part is > > ust off-topic. > > Umm.. It *is* a concern. The code we're looking at didn't just appear out of > thin air. Sun provides an environment where such things were developed and > contributed to community. I AM concerned because if Sun were to do badly, it > would mean that the *biggest* contributor to open source will go away! And > that would be a bad thing! I didn't say it wasn't a concern or wasn't a legitimate topic, only that I think it's off topic on the opensolaris-discuss mailing list. There's precious little that any of us here can do about it in either direction anyway, so even if there were some solid suggestions or clear problems to solve, the whole discussion would be moot anyway. I'm suggesting that looking at the code and what we want to do with it are much more interesting tasks on a development list than trying to decipher Sun's (or anyone's) business model. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 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]
