Sun to Add GPLv3 to OpenSolaris?

An anonymous reader writes to mention that sources inside Sun Microsystems claim that OpenSolaris may see the GPLv3 added to its list of licenses soon. From the article: "While Sun officials would not confirm the plan to dual-license OpenSolaris under the CDDL and GPLv3, Tom Goguen, vice president of Solaris software at Sun, told eWEEK that other open-source technologies will play a big role in Solaris going forward. 'Take the GNU Userland, which is an interesting piece of technology that Sun is looking at closely, and we may do something similar with, say, a container flavor,' he said. 'You can also expect to see a renewed focus on the needs of developers and system administrators with Solaris going forward, while individual pieces of the next version will also likely be increasingly delivered first as components or technologies targeted at vertical markets,' he said."

Comments

When can we use their CODE?

[Duncan3]

This is great if you want to just use their applications.

But wake me up when they use a non-viral license.

So, to sum up

[Slashcrap]

I've been reading a lot of comments to this rumour all over the place. And I think I can condense the opinions of Solaris users as follows :o

"Yes! This is great! Sun can take all it needs from Linux and we don't have to give a single thing back! We'll finally destroy those fuckers!"

Which, I think, proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that they really do get the whole free software thing and aren't just a bunch of breadhead cunts beholden to a particularly dumb and unattractive corporation whose only redeeming feature is the entertainment value of its twitching death throes.