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CDDL Project Leader on the CDDL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plus-it's-cool-to-make-new-licenses dept.

SunFan writes "Claire Giordano, Sun's lead on CDDL development, gives the inside story on how the new license was developed. She discusses how people within Sun debated the various licenses, including the GPL, and shows why the GPL, BSD, and MPL licenses were found to come up short in meeting the needs of Sun's broad customer and developer base."

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  1. Wow were SUN by SCVirus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow were SUN... we've lost all the other markets... so lets act like we're open source!

    1. Re:Wow were SUN by SCVirus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The license may be opensource, but Sun sure as hell isn't, they sold java to M$ for chump change for fucks sake, that small amount of cash isn't going to make a difference, even to a company falling as fast as Sun, its clearly indicative of a greater plan to retake the Unix world. Sun is very clearly anti-open-source, after all they are Sco's secret licensee.

    2. Re:Wow were SUN by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      OpenSolaris is useless to me. I don't care. I can't use it. It is good for people totally locked-in to Sun, who are happy with there vender lockin, and who don't ever plan on using anything else. But that isn't me. Oh well.

    3. Re:Wow were SUN by SCVirus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      If only Sun fans weren't so embarresed they need to be anonymous...

  2. At the very least...Freedom for Solaris Customers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Open Source is a necessary, but not sufficent, condition."

    Translation: Waaaa!! It's not GPL! It's not GPL! Waaaa!

    "As it is, Solaris is closed tight. No cross-fertilization possible."

    Translation: Waaaa!! We can't "borrow" other people's work! Waaa!!

    "They might run Gnome, and use the GNU toolchain, but what they "open" is only open to their customers."

    Well there goes one of the RMS arguments against proprietary.

    "Its useless to the rest of the world."

    Translation: Waaa!! I want your information to be free!! Waaaa!

  3. Re:Questionable OSI Approval by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Paid off? A Sun employee, Danese Cooper, was on the OSI board. Sun owns the OSI.