It may be too late now, but I was kind of hoping you'd reconsider an MIT or BSD license. The way I see it, integrating OSS into the BSD projects (be it FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD of even MirOS) would have been a great chance at recruiting good developers. And none of the BSD projects have a proper sound system at the moment.
Sure, OpenSolaris is the prime target here, and I'm sure there will be a good amount of community action, but I don't see any harm in making it BSD. Linux already has ALSA, then there's PulseAudio for a sound system... it might be a bit complicated to penetrate that market. Integration into Solaris and BSD projects would guarantee success, even on the Linux market. And a common framework would be wonderfull. Also, your FAQ: http://developer.opensound.com/opensource_oss/licensing.html is very unclear in terms of licensing (CDDL 1.0 for operating systems that have their full source code available under the CDDL or BSD licenses.). There's virtually no real life OS (worth mentioning) that has their entire source code available under only one license. It bad be BSD, MIT (lighter version of the 3 clause BSD license), 4 clause BSD license and so on. Most also incorporate GPL in some form or another (as compiler tools or libraries). I just can't see how this is legally binding. You either make it part of your license (and then it's not CDDL, and it's a licensing nightmare where you're not sure it's legal or not to use it) or you stick to a generic license and that's it. This whole: It's GPL for this, it's CDDL for that, but there's FAQs and exceptions can lead to confusion from most projects, I'd hate to see the project stale due to such things. - "A: Non open sourced operating systems such as SCO UnixWare/OpenServer are not covered by the above open source licenses. However we have decided to release the source code of OSS also for them. Users of such operating systems will need a commercial license from 4Front Technologies to use the software legally." I can't see how this would be legally binding either. Or make any sense. By all means, I don't think it would matter in any form if SCO raped and pillaged every source code on the planet, with their current financial situation, they are going down. The answers from some OpenSource community leaders might not have been appropriate in this case, maybe even discouraging, but they tend to stick by an inflexible policy in terms of licensing. Thanks again for going open source, and thanks go to your sponsor too :-). This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
