[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Sean Sprague wrote:

> If you wish to make Solaris a better Solaris (which is a truly laudable 
> goal), then persevere with opensolaris - I guess that there are still 
> plans to allow some external opensolaris developers to be able to make 
> direct putbacks into the codebase at some point in the future; and as 
> such, you will be able to contribute directly to opensolaris, and 
> ultimately through the relevant processes/procedures, into Solaris. 
> Where/if/how this has any relevance to OpenSolaris, I do not know...
> 
> Conversely everything could be completely up in the air with regards 
> eventual external contributions to opensolaris/OpenSolaris/Solaris. This 
> is for others to comment on.....

ISTR vague references recently by Sun management that they're considering
dual-licensing ZFS with the GPL.  As the copytight owner, that's their
entitlement, though I think it is a really dumb idea (if the Linuxites
want ZFS, let them change THEIR license).  One assigns certain rights to
Sun when one contributes code to OpenSolaris: I wonder if those rights
include the ability to relicense said code?  There's no way I'd allow
anything I contribute to be licensed under the GPL.  The CDDL is just
fine, thank you very much.

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