Having read this thread in full, and the other one too, (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=23034&tstart=0) I'm going to add my two cents:
First, as Linus pointed out, the license for the Linux kernel cannot change. He cannot change the license from GPLv2 to anything else. The authors of the code retain copyright, have only released it under the GPLv2, and he does not have the manpower/ability to track down every single copyright holder and ask them to re-release their changes under another license. This is why Sun wants people to turn over the copyright for the code their submit, to avoid that "problem" in the future. Secondly, the problem you are trying to solve, I think, will not be solved by using a different license, but rather by taking the "whole enchilada" outside of Sun. First, go read: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2005/07/were_not_going_1.html and pay close attention to all the comments. They express my position fairly well (more: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2005/07/tainting_or_wer.html) Ok, so now that you get my drift, look again at the "problem" you're trying to solve, and ask yourself: "How do we solve that problem." I'm going to go out on a limb and say that what Sun M... Inc. wants is greater Solaris adoption. At least that's the impression I get from the outside. Now, what makes people deploy an os. Let's see, it could be because they need it to run their application, or because they need it to run their applications very fast, or even because they need to to run their applications very stably (is that a word?), or yet because they need it to run their applications very fast and very stably. Now, I'm going to go out on another limb and make an assumption that people who now work on the Linux kernel didn't start out there. They were working on an application. They ran the application on Linux, and somehow, their application was not performing fast or stably enough (and maybe was not running at all), and so, feeling the itch, they took a deep breath, rolled up their sleeves, and headed to http://lxr.linux.no/source/ and http://www.linux.org/docs/lists.html and hooked into linux-kernel and linux-kernel-announce. Then they talked, and learned, and compiled, and worked hard to improve Linux to get their (get this) applications running/running better. You want people involved in Open Solaris? Make it super easy for people to get it, run their applications on it, hack on it, and contribute. Oh, and don't think they love you and will give you their copyright. Get rid of the Sun Contributor Agreement. CDDL is OK. I would be better under GPLv2, but I understand if you can't for legal reasons. Sorry for being ranty. came here from http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/and_more_opensolaris_amp_gplv3 This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
