[ug-bosug] It's official - European Commision on Sun's OpenSource contributions

[Surya.Prakki at Sun.COM]

I believe Linus made it clear that linux will continue with GPLv2 (if
so, I am sure that,
lot of drivers will follow suit). So I don't see any drastic
improvement...but new drivers
may become more OpenSolaris friendly...
-surya

Anil Gulecha wrote On 01/17/07 09:31,:

> Hi list,
>
> GPLv3 would make OpenSolaris compatible to many many open source
> projects (including linux).. so I wanted your views as to how th
> device driver situation would improve? Would it be drastic or
> incremental improvement? Would you hazard a guess to the timeline by
> when OpenSolaris would match up to linux if OS were GPLed
>
> Regards
> Anil
>
>
> On 1/16/07, *Joe G (Joseph George)* <Joe.G at sun.com
> <mailto:Joe.G at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just got this bit of news.
>
>     <snip>
>     The European Commission on FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) has
>     made it official - Sun contributes to and participates in more open
>     source projects than any other commercial company, including IBM, Red
>     Hat, Novell and HP.  See
>     http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf
>     (page 51) for the breakdown.  And this was concluded prior to the
>     OpenJDK announcement, so our lead will only get bigger.
>     <\snip>
>
>     If the eWeek announcement about GPLv3 for OpenSolaris is true,
>     there is
>     going to be some interesting activity in the opensource world.
>
>     Cheers,
>     ~Joe
>
>     --
>     -----------------------------------------------------
>     Joseph George
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