On 21/06/07, Chris Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What to do?
Sun forms a foundation with a board that includes 5 members, only two being
Sun employees, and funds then to the tune of 5-10 million dollars, then
grants them copyright to the Open Solaris codebase, along with the
OpenSolaris trademark. And maybe some servers.
This would allow the foundation to change the license under which Open
Solaris and derivatives might be offered under, and use the OpenSolaris
trademark.
Also, Sun should make changes to their stewardship of the CDDL.
I don't mean to hijack the thread or start a flame war, but these are
essentially deal-breakers for me as far as OpenSolaris is concerned.
While your sentiment is appreciated, I do not believe that a
foundation would work at this stage. The majority of the community
here is Sun employees, and without Sun, it is not self-sustaining.
Not only that, considering the basic deficiencies that this project
has two years in, worrying about possible legal nightmare surrounding
a foundation is the last thing that is needed right now.
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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