OSI Approves Sun's CDDL

njcoder writes "CNET is reporting that Sun's Community Development and Distribution License has received approval from the Open Source Initiative on Friday. The CDDL has been rumored to be the proposed license for OpenSolaris which is expected to be released by the end of the month."

Comments

Re:What about RMS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares about RMS?

Slashdot is hard to understand

[SunFan]

Solaris is going to be full-blown Open Source Software, under an OSI-approved license. Does this mean nothing to the FOSS fanboys out there?

Slashdot went crazy over a token patent licensing scheme by IBM, but Sun aquired the IP to make OpenSolaris free to everyone...and nothing not even a dozen comments.

Are you really that beholden to cheap marketing and fanboyism?

Re:Slashdot is hard to understand

[tolan-b]

I'm afraid I'm pretty suspicious of Sun at the moment, I'm going to reserve comment until I see how this pans out.

Re:Slashdot is hard to understand

[SunFan]

Well you can't mix and match with Linux or other GPLed SW...what about the BSDs? What about Darwin? If it is open source but not usable, what is it?

Well, ask the BSD people what they would think if you submitted a patch that included code from Linux. They'd probably freak out.

All Sun would be doing is trying to keep GPL code out of the core Solaris system--no different than the BSDs.

BTW, Solaris _does_ include GPL'd software and other OSS software. Take a look under /usr/sfw/, /opt/sfw/, /usr/bin/, /usr/perl5/, /usr/apache/, /usr/apache2/, /usr/gnome/, and /usr/staroffice7/ (OpenOffice.org).

Re:Slashdot is hard to understand

[njcoder]

There are tons of open source projects out there. There were tons of openn source projects before linux existed and will be around long after linux is dead.

Why do so many of you *#$&(## think that open source is all about linux and how everthing open source has to benefit linux? It's the most disgusting type of attitude I see here and the most harmful to oss.

It's about community, not licenses.

[rjh]

You could release the entire Windows XP codebase under the GPL and you wouldn't see an active open-source community spring up around it--not immediately, at least. Community-friendly licensing is a prerequisite for communities, but putting a community-friendly license on Solaris isn't enough to cause solaris-kernel@kernel.org to come into being.

While I certainly welcome Solaris to the open-source table, my question for Sun Microsystems is "all right, and what are you prepared to do to help a community form?" They don't have to do very much; just a developer's mailing list, Bugzilla and responsiveness from Sun engineers would do worlds.

Sun has already taken the biggest step by open-sourcing Solaris. The remaining steps are tiny by comparison, and quite painless. So, come on, Sun. Take those last couple of steps. Please. I, and many other open-source geeks, look forward to it.

I'll even meet you halfway on it. As soon as you release Solaris under an open-source license and put ISOs available for download, I'll install Solaris on one of my spare partitions. Assuming my hardware is compatible, I'll commit to using Solaris as my desktop UNIX for the next three months. Whenever I find a usability problem, I'll file Bugzilla reports. If GNOME won't compile, I'll submit patches. I'll do my part for open-source Solaris, as my own show of good faith.

Welcome to the open-source OS party, Solaris. There's no cover charge, the beer is cheap and the live band is surprisingly good. We're glad you could join us. :)