07.01.07
Sun Sticks to CDDL’d OpenSolaris (For Now)
The Sun-GPL saga continues. As you may recall, Sun has some interest in GPLv3 as a competitive differentiator and its choice of a licence could also affect the licence of the Linux kernel. Yesterday, Dana Gardner came out with a word on Sun’s latest stance on licences.
Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
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On the other hand, there may be highly positive long-term effects that protect users, build bridges to the Apache community, close patent infringement loopholes (you know what I mean), and that bring more low-risk open source use to more organizations (and spur them on as contributors) in a mission critical sense. Sun should be for that, no? But here’s where they are at…
Dana quotes some relevant new E-mails that shed more light. The day before that, PCWorld published another article on the matter, but it remained quite inconclusive.
Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes
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Then he added, “One of my great fantasies in life is that the number of people with opinions on open source licenses will come roughly into balance with the number of people who have read them.”
It will very interesting to see where (and when) Sun adopts GPLv3.
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