[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:56:40AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote:
> 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).

I womder if this is actually not a matter of choice, given the rollup of
ZFS into Lustre.

> One assigns certain rights to
> Sun when one contributes code to OpenSolaris: I wonder if those rights
> include the ability to relicense said code?

Yes, they do.

I can't see anything productive coming from this thread now, so perhaps
we should kill it.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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