Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 11th Feb 2006 23:33 UTC, submitted by misha
On Wednesday February 8th, the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board voted to approve The OpenSolaris Charter. Sun Microsystems also approved the Charter, and the document was signed by Glenn Weinberg, vice president of Sun's Operating Platforms Group.
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RE[5]: This Sounds Nice
by sbergman27 on Mon 13th Feb 2006 12:48
in reply to "RE[4]: This Sounds Nice"
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Too restrictive? Excuse me? Are you aware that the GPLv3 will likely be *more* restrictive than the CDDL (based on my reading of the draft)? Are you also aware that if anything the CDDL is *less* restrictive than the GPL if you leave out the parts about patents?
Like first, no trolling here.
What he ment is. Sun can use GPL with CDDL. While one using GPL can't benefit from CDDL. CDDL is less restricted than GPL, off course you are right here. The only problem is that this license is more open to MS and other companies than to GPL coders. It is considered as using free world to benefit proprietary, while in the same time screwing free coders (with this I'm considering GPL coders only, not BSD, MIT...).
Personaly, I'm only happy that project when making Ubuntu-like Nexenta steped on a license mine which makes it almost impossible to get out without legal problems. Not that I wouldn't like for Nexenta to succed, I would. It is just the fact that Sun can put CDDL version of Solaris out 1000 times and I won't use it (I will still rather use commercial version when customer or job demands it, than free under the license I don't approve). On the other hand if they put out GPL, that makes another story.
Only about 500 at last check..
That was first batch of patents. You should check second one too, where IBM and some others put out additional patents.