Sun Considers dual-sourcing Solaris Under GPL3 198
foorilious writes "In his blog, Sun Microsystem's President and COO Jonathan Schwartz discusses the possibility of dual-licensing Solaris (and perhaps the rest of their software suite) under GPLv3, in addition to the CDDL, which is the OSI-approved license under which these products are already available, but generally considered to be incompatible with the GPL at some level.
Though this could mean an opening of the floodgates to a lot of sharing between Linux and Solaris (among other things), it's worth mentioning that Schwartz has speculated on exciting things in the past (such as porting Solaris to IBM's Power) that we subsequently never heard another thing about."
Sharing with Linux? (Score:5, Insightful)
Jerry
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Re:Sharing with Linux? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Floodgates are shut (Score:3, Insightful)
I know, I know - Linux is the kernel, yadda yadda. When anyone I speak to says "Linux", they mean the OS, not the kernel - just like when people talk about NT, they mean the OS, not the kernel.
Horses, Loaves and Shoes. (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone doing any kind of scientific computing, which is a large portion of their customer base. They have been losing that customer base to Linux, which hurts their sales in more ways than one.
You might also care about Solaris if you want to use any of their excellent hardware. If they GPL'd Solaris, no only could you use it without practical and moral problems, you could also do a much better job of porting other free software.
GPL'd Solaris would be a great gift. Don't look it too hard in the mouth.
GPL Java, for crying out loud.
The magic of cross licensing may prevent that. If Sun GPL's Solaris, you can be sure they will do everything in their power to get a free Java out.
Take what it gives and make what it won't.
Re:Sharing with Linux? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:WTF?!? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:WTF?!? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:GNU (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Sharing with Linux? (Score:3, Insightful)
yeah, right (Score:3, Insightful)
Sun management is a bunch of liars. At this point, you can't believe anything they say until they do it.