Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft.
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opensolaris is a single vendor thing. You guys already have a problem generating community development around openoffice.org with the give me all your copyrights thing. I dont think it has been yet clarified whether Sun's patents with solaris are available for use by redistributions.
"CDDL is a CDDL only community.
>>> So is GPL "
Unlike CDDL which is a license which only Sun uses, GPL is *the* most popular open source license. Read
http://dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
opensolaris is a single vendor thing. You guys already have a problem generating community development around openoffice.org with the give me all your copyrights thing. I dont think it has been yet clarified whether Sun's patents with solaris are available for use by redistributions.
Good luck anyway.