Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Jun 2007 22:38 UTC, submitted by Robert Kratky
Alan Cox talks about cooperation with hardware vendors, patent law, microkernels, and GPLv3: "I think [the MS-Novell deal] is a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw."
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I think only GNU purists would switch to Solaris solely based on the GPL v2 vs v3 difference.
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I would think that GNU purists would be wary of Sun Microsystems' insistance upon being granted joint copyright on all code included in the official version of OpenSolaris, allowing them to do anything with it. Anything at all.
At least with Linux one can be sure that the official version can't be taken proprietary by a single entity which happens to hold all the necessary copyrights and provide most of the developer resources.
If Sun were to decide to take development proprietary, for their own reasons, and withdraw devloper support, the Free project would be dead in the water, no matter what version of GPL the code was under.