Glynn Foster, The Face of Sun Microsystems, talks about OpenSolaris and JDS in the latest episode of James Purser’s Linux Australia Update podcast. You’ll have to wait until next fortnight’s installment for the GNOMEy bits of Glynn’s interview.
There’s been a bit of anti-CDDL mish-mash on Planet GNOME this week, and a lot of it floating around in general. Here’s my POV: It’s Sun’s code, a fucking enormous contribution to the world of Open Source, and they can license it however the hell they like. Aside from a couple of nits that Sun seems keen to fix, the CDDL is a fine Open Source license – and progressive on the anti-proliferation front to boot.
Sure, it means they will be forced to build a parallel community for the system level stuff – but so what? Their code, their call. If there are compelling reasons to alter the license later on, that’s entirely doable. As Mark likes to say: “We are all consenting adults… (looking pointedly at cute young girls)… Right?”
