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Dual licensing Solaris?
Thursday, January 18. 2007
There are several rumours about a dual licensing of solaris unter CDDL and GPLv3. This would be a good move, because it would stop all the "Solaris is not GPLed" at an instance. BTW: No customer was capable to explain me, why the license GPL is important for his production systems.
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Up to now, I can't see any real benefit here. This may change depending on the final version of the GPLv3 though, and I hope sincerely, that no final commitment is made before the final version is evaluated. It's good to know that Sun isn't considering licensing as some kind of religious issue, but that's something that's quite clear from reading the CDDL already.
I'm not so sure though that double-licensing just in order to appease those people who do treat licensing as a religious issue would do any good. I'm not so sure either, if double licensing wouldn't just add to confusion for those customers, who might be worried about licensing issues.
Some kind of "licensing FAQ" might do more in that regard.
I'm not so sure though that double-licensing just in order to appease those people who do treat licensing as a religious issue would do any good. I'm not so sure either, if double licensing wouldn't just add to confusion for those customers, who might be worried about licensing issues.
Some kind of "licensing FAQ" might do more in that regard.
From a "pragmatic" point of view, on a production it doesn't really matter whether the system is GPL-, CDDL-, BSD- or whatever-licensed. Here, looking at a distribution like Nexenta, I just see a benefit in having a homogenous licensing applied to both the kernel and most of the base system (which, in this case, happens to be GNU).
That aside (also in reply to Tatjana): There indeed are people who care about "free" software, "free" in the terms outlined by the GNU GPL and/or the GNU manifest, and I would indeed like this to be seen as a personal preference rather than a "religious issue". To those (including myself, personally), the idea of having another "free software" kernel to choose from is a good thing, that's why I am looking forward to an GPL'ed OpenSolaris, that's why I would embrace this system as soon as it's there...
That aside (also in reply to Tatjana): There indeed are people who care about "free" software, "free" in the terms outlined by the GNU GPL and/or the GNU manifest, and I would indeed like this to be seen as a personal preference rather than a "religious issue". To those (including myself, personally), the idea of having another "free software" kernel to choose from is a good thing, that's why I am looking forward to an GPL'ed OpenSolaris, that's why I would embrace this system as soon as it's there...
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