De Togni Giacomo wrote: >My idea is that CDDL (or MPL) represents the best compromise between >commercial and open world.It seems to resolve a lot of number of problems (for >example piece of code with different license). If the major problem of >OpenSolaris project is around acceptability by Open Community,I suggest to >evolve it to a Foundation,OpenSolaris Foundation.I'm not sure,but the market >should have necessity of a standard Unix system, quite different to Linux and >GPL. > >Giacomo > >
I'm divided. "Psychology of the masses" is a complex and hot topic. I do see benefits, in terms of market and opensource community acceptance. Read the press all the time: "OpenSolaris is opensource, _but_ ... CDDL ... not GPL ... bla bla" However, I fully agree with you, that OpenSolaris.org should somehow become an independent entity. But who will pay the bills, who will maintain, extend and supervise ON? Sponsors (foremost SUNW) and 3rd parties ... ? I recently read, that it might become easier for 3rd party organizations to donate money into the project, if it was an "independent" Foundation. I don't know, nor did I have more to say. -- Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
