> I really don't think that the choice of license has > anything to do with > how many drivers we have on Solaris versus Linux. It > has a lot more > to do with the fact that the CDDL and OpenSolaris > isn't even a year old
I agree with the above statement. Kernel modules are like a live-culture yogurt. Licenses are the identifiers of what type of bacterial family we belong to. The GPL is well established and hard to displace, and we, like the lesser bacteria, must be ingenius to stay alive. > I firmly believe that in the long run the CDDL will > actually give us > more drivers on Solaris and more drivers in source > for OpenSolaris as > well. I agree, but note that in the interim, we need to adapt new techniques to include, as quickly and easily as possible, the ability to install alpha, beta, 3rd party, etc. drivers into the ITU than gets folks up and running. For most folks today that take off-the-shelf install ISO images for Solaris, there is little or no methods for them to easily get new drivers into the install image to even boot and install. -- This messages posted from opensolaris.org
