Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
I am really glad that you both bring this issue up. I frankly would rather that there be no license at all. After all there is nothing new under the Sun in the Zone Manager. Its just a script that I hope helps make zones management much easier. However I can't open source the Zone Manager through the Open Source process without specifying a license. The Zone Manager was Open Sourced with GPLv2 even though version 1.7 had CDDL. I am open to either way but if I switch from GPLv2 to CDDL I will have to start the OS process all over again which I really don't want to do. Brad On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:02 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To mitigate barriers to adoption. > > > > > > Which barriers to adoption? > > > > You've also erected a new barrier to adoption (for those who prefer > > CDDL over GPLv2 and find GPLv2 too restrictive) > > I also completely fail to understand how a GPLv2 zone manager tool built > on top of the CDDL licensed (for the source) zone tools in Solaris > actually helps. > > What I do see is that there is now a new barrier. There is now this tool > under the GPLv2 and the original zones tools under a difference license > than the tools it uses to do its job. I don't see how this actually > helps anyone. > > I also think that a change of license of anything hosted on > opensolaris.org should be discussed on an appropriate opensolaris.org > alias BEFORE a change like this is announced as having happened. > > Given that the zonemgr project has zones-discuss@opensolaris.org as its > discussion alias I would have expected to see at least discussion there. > I've check the mail archives and see no mention of a licensing > discussion involving the GPL and zonemgr. As a common courtesy never > mind the possible legal implications of this. > ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To mitigate barriers to adoption. Which barriers to adoption? You've also erected a new barrier to adoption (for those who prefer CDDL over GPLv2 and find GPLv2 too restrictive) I also completely fail to understand how a GPLv2 zone manager tool built on top of the CDDL licensed (for the source) zone tools in Solaris actually helps. What I do see is that there is now a new barrier. There is now this tool under the GPLv2 and the original zones tools under a difference license than the tools it uses to do its job. I don't see how this actually helps anyone. I also think that a change of license of anything hosted on opensolaris.org should be discussed on an appropriate opensolaris.org alias BEFORE a change like this is announced as having happened. Given that the zonemgr project has zones-discuss@opensolaris.org as its discussion alias I would have expected to see at least discussion there. I've check the mail archives and see no mention of a licensing discussion involving the GPL and zonemgr. As a common courtesy never mind the possible legal implications of this. -- Darren J Moffat ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
>To mitigate barriers to adoption. Which barriers to adoption? You've also erected a new barrier to adoption (for those who prefer CDDL over GPLv2 and find GPLv2 too restrictive) Casper ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
>On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Brad Diggs wrote: >> >> * Switched from CDDL license to GPLv2. >> > >> >I'm curious why did the license switch to GPLv2 ? >> >> And noone has contributed any code to this point? >> >> >Mostly sun contributors but have also had outside contribution as well. Did they reassign copyright? If they did not than you cannot modify the license, AFAIK. Casper ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
Mostly sun contributors but have also had outside contribution as well. Brad On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Brad Diggs wrote: > >> * Switched from CDDL license to GPLv2. > > > >I'm curious why did the license switch to GPLv2 ? > > And noone has contributed any code to this point? > > > > Casper > ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
To mitigate barriers to adoption. Brad On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:48 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Brad Diggs wrote: > > * Switched from CDDL license to GPLv2. > > I'm curious why did the license switch to GPLv2 ? > > ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Zone Manager v1.8 Released...
>Brad Diggs wrote: >> * Switched from CDDL license to GPLv2. > >I'm curious why did the license switch to GPLv2 ? And noone has contributed any code to this point? Casper ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
