[cab-discuss] Re: CAB conf call - communication

[Rich Teer]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Were any of the OGB members (besides Simon) aware of this meeing?
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/opensolaris_to_3_or_not

Speaking personally, the email to which I'm replying was the first I
heard of this meeting.

> I realise that Sun retains the copyright of OpenSolaris (and
> therefore the right to determine licensing terms), but I would have

Agreed.

> assumed that the OGB should have been involved with any discussions
> with the FSF - or is that outside their remit?

Again, speaking personally, in my opinion the CAB/OGB should very
much be involved in those discussions.  Yes, Simon was there, so
one could say that the OGB had representation, but as far as I'm
aware, there was no invite to the OGB as an entity.  I guess what
I'm saying is that Simon being the only OGB member invited to (or
even notified about) the meeting is completely different to the OGB
as a whole being invitied and us electing to have Simon represent us.

To be clear: this isn't intended to cast Simon (nor anyone else for
that matter) in a bad light--I like and respect him too much to do
that.  I prefer to think of it a stumble as we navigate our way
through uncharted territory.  It's not the first stumble, and I doubt
it'll be the last.  The important thing is to learn from it so that
it won't (hopefully) be repeated in future.

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Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member

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