Stephen Harpster writes: > Who maintains the code on that CVS server? Same as any other open source project -- the community built around it does.
Would you ask that question about any other open source project? > If there's a bug in virtual > memory, who fixes it? The experts are here in Sun, and they will > continue to work on opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris is too large and > complex for even a small set of people to maintain an entire separate fork. Assuming that _all_ of the smart, capable people are within sun.com seems like a substantial risk. Assuming that it _matters_ seems like a bigger one still. Particularly so when what we're actually talking about here is the viability of the community itself -- which is much larger than just the code. So, as a contributor, my choice is between Sun's community and dealing with the unfinished areas of the process but gaining possible future bug fixes, versus being able to commit directly, track bugs fully, and feel like I own parts of the system. The choice doesn't look so obviously in opensolaris.org's favor to me. > OK, they could pull bug fixes from opensolaris.org, but what happens to > them once one of their changes doesn't work with our changes? That's > the biggest danger of a fork. You're constantly playing catch-up. > > If someone wants to do that, they can do that now. Knock yourself out. They can't do it and get out from under the requirements of the CDDL, particularly those that allow users to compile binaries and add proprietary files and ship the result under a difference license _without_ exposing source. Adding a new license to the code allows them to ditch CDDL by choosing to adopt GPL alone. If it doesn't allow them to get rid of CDDL, and we're actually planning to stop people from doing that (via the lack of patent grants?), then it opens us up to accusations of a bait-and- switch. I don't see a winning course here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
