> I know; but *who* is she? > > It is interesting how people quote the FSF on the CDDL; they > invariablyneglect to mention that the FSF says the *exact* same > things about > the Apache 2.0 license yet Apache 2.0 is still part of Debian. > > Casper
This is her: http://www.perl.com/supersnail/os2002/images/small/os6_d5_f0688_sm.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper It seems she is really good at burning her past employeers, talk about a way to say screw-you to 6 years worth of work on her resume. Reading her blog, I am not very impressed, she seems to be very talkative but not many "potatoes" are involved, just lots of "gravy". I am very surprised about her comments re: cddl. Then again, most people go wherever the wind blows them, and it sounds like she has picked a stance that is not exactly "kind" to Sun/CDDL. The problem with this being, I believe she was one of the "big" people at Sun behind the CDDL, and it looks pretty bad. Unfortunately I am not a Sun employee nor was I present during all of the decision making process behind CDDL, but if she didn't seem to be so good at ranting, I'd almost be tempted to believe her (that and the logic behind picking a license that doesn't allow the virulent GPL to take over your code seems sound to me...). Take it as you will. That being said, I also really wouldn't care if the CDDL was choosen simply to disallow GPL "infection" - I don't like the GPL. I think we've got a pretty big PR disaster brewing though, too many people are being really confrontational (or have in the past) and people are getting *personally* offended it seems, and getting *revenge* for that. This is never a good way to handle things, and this whole mess probably could have been avoided with more diplomatic handling (and no, I don't like politics, but they are a part of life no matter where you live..) I think a very clear written one to two page rebuttle with absolute proof or very clear logic behind the choice of CDDL released without much fanfare would be the best approach to extinguishing this current fire, anything more and you're just going to be pouring petrol. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
