On 8/19/05, Robert W. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet, I seem to have missed the forest for the trees I'm inhabiting. Indeed, > the > cross pollination at the operating system level makes an even stronger case > for > compatibility between the GPL and CDDL licenses.
I don't follow the cross pollination between different projects argument. If anything, I see a lot of code from *BSDs or other GPL compatible license projects going to GPL projects and very little coming back. The GPL cross-pollination argument only holds water in the sense that GPL projects get to benefit from other people's code because the license is compatible but those projects cannot likewise benefit from GPL projects. If you ask me, it's very one-sided benefit. I think it's a lie to call it cross-pollination. There are always exceptions of course, but it's relatively rare from what I see. If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless to me. The GPL's inability to co-exist reasonably with commercial closed software or software under incompatible terms is the greatest and most unreasonable condition it suffers from. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
