The issue of open source licensing has become so important in the corporate world that last year, the Practicing Law Institute began to offer a special course in this area:
http://www.pli.edu/product/book_detail.asp?ptid=503&stid=28&id=EN00000000018334 This course was very well received, and PLI is offering a totally revised course this year: http://www.pli.edu/product/book_detail.asp?ptid=503&stid=28&id=EN00000000020133 If it were left to engineers, CDDL would be the way to go. Definitely. However, there are legal issues (as aforementioned). But more importantly, there are marketing issues. I am not talking 'bout marketing to end-users, who probably could care less one way or another, but about marketing to open-source developers. In order to do the later, Sun probably has two options, one is try to convince them to erase their bias against CDDL--I don't know how that's possible b/c most of them don't even care to read the licence. The second option is to try to re-package the OpenSolaris kernel to make it GPL compatible. The more I think about it, the less I feel it is impossible. But at least someone at Sun should give it a thought. Of course, there is a third option, i.e., to hire a ton of developers, perhaps expanding the current head count by ten-fold. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
