> Stack against that the issues we will have to endure
> if we dual license 
> - the potential for one license to be ripped off and
> the source forked 
> *incompatibly* (the incompatibility is the important
> bit), the inability 
> to move bug fixes between versions, the confusion
> that dual-licensing 
> will bring (just what *is* an "assembly exception"
> anyway?).
> 
> If Sun really wants to go GPLv3 with OpenSolaris, I
> think they should 
> just switch license entirely and ditch the CDDL.  I
> really don't think 
> dual licensing is a good idea.  And I don't see that
> switching to GPLv3 
> will fix the many issues we *should* be expending
> energy on.
> 
> To me, the interesting and helpful bits of this long,
> long discussion 
> have been about what we need to do as a community to
> to attract more 
> members, and what we need to do to make life easier
> for the members we 
> already have.  As far as I'm concerned the licensing
> flamefest is really 
> an irrelevant and unnecessary distraction.

+1

-Shawn
 
 
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