Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 00:19 UTC
Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU GPLv3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. "The next version of Solaris will include things like GNU Userland, which is already being attempted with OpenSolaris, while open-source solutions from other communities for things like package management also look very promising. Dual-licensing OpenSolaris with GPLv3 could make this even easier," said a source who declined to be named.
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2005-07-06
i was hoping that solaris would go under the GPL2 so that linux and solaris could both be improved and abosrbed, i hope we dont have a foss war, between the old world of linux and the new world of solaris
You mean so that Linux distributions can plunder every good thing about Solaris and kill the existing Solaris community?
As an OpenSolaris contributor, I would stop contributing if they chose the GPLv2. The CDDL was a *main* reason why I joined the OpenSolaris project.
At least Open Source zealots won't be able to complaint about it being "fake" open source anymore, even though it never was.
Edited 2007-01-17 00:45