Bruno Souza, the NetBeans Community Manager for Sun, wrote: "As you all know, we are working hard for the release of NetBeans 6.0. The new release will bring exciting technical features and this is a great time to consider what else can we do to empower the NetBeans Community. As a result of requests from the comunity, we are considering the potential adoption of a new license model. We are considering releasing a future early access version of NetBeans 6.0 under a dual licensing scheme of CDDL and GPL v2 with Classpath exception. A move like this would be well received by many of the NetBeans contributors, and will benefit the community at large."
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Member since:2006-02-06
I don't quite get why this post above was modded down. Perhaps I take the stuff he said too lightly, but I for one would like to see Linux And OpenSolaris kernels being able to share more code for the benefit of both projects.
Is there anything specially hideous about this idea that I haven't seen ?
Member since:2005-11-05
Although going by the "rules" he has done nothing wrong the comment displays a distinct lack of technical knowledge and a slight degree of GPL zealotry. Not to mention that this story is about Netbeans and not OpenSolaris.
OpenSolaris could not simply *use* Linux drivers as they are fundamentally different, i'm sure there is some good info that could be gleaned from the Linux drivers but I doubt it would be worth going GPL and losing the benfits inherent in CDDL?
The CDDL is a great open source license that serves the needs and wants of the OpenSolaris community just fine, the community may decide to go GPL3 based upon it's merits but going to GPL2 would be a step backward in many eyes, including mine.
A constructive approach often benefits all, rolling around on the floor screaming "I want GPL" is not going to help anyone.
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2006-06-26
So _we'll_ get their zfs and _they'll_ get our drivers ...