Danese Cooper is wrong in that many of the folks who were involved in picking of the license wanted the GPL but that the GPL did not qualify because of all the encumbered code in Solaris.
But since "GPL Compatible" really only means "You can rip of this license and replace it with the GPL", a "GPL Compatible" license would not have guaranteed code be given back to OpenSolaris. I.e., the peole involved in the license drafting were opposed to the "GPL Compatible" New BSD license. Note also that GPL Incompatible is generally not an issue; people still run Apache which is using a "GPL Incompatible" license. The way Danese Cooper said it was malicious; I think it was wrong not to protest at the way she said it or even the substance. Sun has released a lot of code under the GPL. Who is Danese Cooper anyway? Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
