Sun considering dual-licensing for Solaris (CDDL/GPLv3)
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:00 pm
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonath ... ing_around
"We also recognize that diversity and choice are important - which is why we've begun looking at the possibility of releasing Solaris (and potentially the entire Solaris Enterprise System), under dual open source licenses. CDDL (which allows customer IP to safely comingle with Solaris source code) and under the Free Software Foundation's GPL3. It's early days, but we're looking at two things as we make that decision."
I think it would be very interesting if Sun released Solaris under the GPL, and if they did, could it be possible that they might do the same thing with Java?
"We also recognize that diversity and choice are important - which is why we've begun looking at the possibility of releasing Solaris (and potentially the entire Solaris Enterprise System), under dual open source licenses. CDDL (which allows customer IP to safely comingle with Solaris source code) and under the Free Software Foundation's GPL3. It's early days, but we're looking at two things as we make that decision."
I think it would be very interesting if Sun released Solaris under the GPL, and if they did, could it be possible that they might do the same thing with Java?