Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris
Posted Feb 12, 2007 15:47 UTC (Mon) by
rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to:
Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris by scherbis
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Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris
It's *some* of the OpenSolaris developers, about half a dozen of then. The discussion at
the link is partly about the question of exactly who "the OpenSolaris Community"
includes. There are apparently some 800 people on the OpenSolaris mailing list, so it's
arguable how representative those half-dozen developers are.
As someone mentioned above in comparison to Java, the current contributors are exactly
the ones you'd expect not to have a problem with the current licensing, while a change of
license could potentially (or not) attract many other contributors who don't like the current
licensing.
Also, as I understand it (though I could be wrong), the discussion is about whether to
dual-license OpenSolaris with CDDL and GPLv3, not whether to switch entirely to GPLv3.
That's an important distinction.
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