On 1/30/07, Stephen Harpster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ugh. Here's the de-HTML'ed one.... Sorry.....

In the last few months I've seen more and more speculation about the prospect 
of dual-licensing OpenSolaris under GPLv3.  In November
Jonathan very publically asked Rich if he would look into it, and everyone 
knows that we are fully engaged in the GPLv3 process.
As Rich has made clear, we're looking into it.  No decisions have been made.  
We've seen discussions in blogs and in the news,
but I haven't seen much in the OpenSolaris community itself.

I think that we ("we" being all of you) should be asking ourselves what we 
think about GPLv3.  What would it
mean to the community if we dual-licensed?  It's now a possibility that we could attach 
an "assembly exception"
to the GPLv3 which would let us mix GPL and CDDL code.  This could open up a 
world of possibilities.

But what are the downsides?  What does the community, you, think of the way 
GPLv3 is taking shape?  These are important issues and I urge
everyone with an opinion to voice it sooner rather than later.

if this actually happens we might end up doing things like this:
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/license-policy.html
yes, to get code integrated into mozilla, you have to release it using
3 different licenses!
to me, that is an ugly hack

nacho
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