Jörg the Börg wrote: > > The GPL is a anti-collaboration license. > > The CDDL is a _license_ (text/name) owned by Oracle.
not so sure that i agree on the GPL FUD being anti-collaboration (particularly if you follow the amount of collaboration happening on a daily basis LKML) as for the CDDL - to my untrained eye there seem to be far more rights granted to the Initial Developer (Sun => Oracle in this case) than to any contributor even when the amount of contribution might outweigh the initial code .. however section 3.6 appears to promising about the possibility of creating a larger work .. gauging from how ugly it seems to be to get code into the base (find an sponsor, sign an agreement, ARC approvals, CRs, approvals, submit/deny/submit/etc) .. Illuminos might be a nice place to potentially contribute if that process could be made easier (particularly if the ARC process is now going to be hidden for interface changes or additions) - but it my mind .. it almost seems worth it to take the lessons learned here and begin to focus some effort on fixing Linux (not that the 2 efforts need to be made mutually exclusive) - Sun always seemed a bit scared about fixing, porting, or improving Linux kernel interfaces (which is much easier to fork btw) - presumably due to the lack of control they thought they'd have in the process -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
