5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
5:18 p.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, I watched the video you referred to (my daughter
having woken up) and
Simon's comments seem to be in direct contradiction of your earlier
statement. The relevant comments start at around 35:30, and he says that
the Sun engineering community pretty clearly favored a BSD-style license.
He mentions that trying to use the GPL would have pushed out their timeline
by several years. The ``you do that and we quit'' comment (around the 38
minute park) was quite clearly in response to using GPL for OpenSolaris.
This is strange, I have in mind that Simon said BSD was not wanted by the
programmers and GPL was not practical because Sun then could not give away
binaries from Closed Source parts from other code owners that are in Sun
Solaris but could not be in OpenSolaris.
IIRC, the only thing I did get from that video is the confirmation that Simon
was extremely unhappy with Danese claiming that Sun did like to have something
that is deliberately incompatible to the GPL.
My discussion with Andrew Tucker resulted in getting to know that while there
have been _some_ people inside Sun that would like to go this way, it was not
what Sun as a whole intended.
I also remember that I got my recollection on the BSD thing from a face to face
discssion with Simon and not from this video. So one of the statements from
Simon may have been mistaken.
What I definitely remember from a private discussion with Simon is that Danese
was very unhappy that Sun did not chose GPL and she did never understand why
this was not possible for a product like Sun Solaris that should have allowed
to be combined with closed source parts from other vendors as done before. She
left Sun soon after the CDDL was chosen and started to spread her view in a
way that unfortunately harmed OpenSolaris.
Jörg
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