[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Sean Sprague]

Ceri,

>> 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.
>   

Are you a lawyer?

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

In that case, maybe you should just not read/contribute to it any 
further, and leave us to our further discussion; should we choose to 
have one.

Regards... Sean.