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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2006-02-01
You mean so that Linux distributions can plunder every good thing about Solaris and kill the existing Solaris community?
Yet you don't mind Apple and BSD "plundering" the good things from Solaris? How is it any different?
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.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the way I read this is "I would stop contributing if those Linux bastards could use my stuff". Such an attitude goes completely against the sprit of the open source/free software movement and is, frankly, rather childish.
If you like OpenSolaris best and want to contribute to it, then that's great. But choosing to do so specifically so that another open source project can't use your code just doesn't seem right to me.