OSI Approves Sun's CDDL 29
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."
What about RMS? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What about RMS? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What about RMS? (Score:2, Informative)
Early poster scans original artical before posting (Score:2)
This is for Solaris, not Java.
Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:3, Insightful)
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 (Score:1)
But of course. This is /. after all.
Jared
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
My question was this: Can Solaris code be mixed with other codebases? Or is it a "standalone" collection of isolated and lonely code?
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
I'm still waiting for Gnu/Hurd to be finished.
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
Also, I think you are confusing what you call "open source projects", and "oss". OSS does not predate GNU. While there was an openess in computer science before GNU, it was the closing of that very same openess that lead to GNU. OSS is a Johnny-come-lately with an interesting point of view. Whether or not "harm" to oss means harm to Free software is open
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
As far as I can tell, it's the first commercial unix, if not commercial os in general that is going open source. One of the arguments people make for linux over commercial unixes, is that it's open and people can contri
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
I is true that "Just because you can't use it in Linux or other GNU software doesn't mean it is useless." However, this limits its usefulness. I'm coming from an open science point of view. Imagine if you were trying to solve a word problem, and your teacher marked you off for mixing analytic geometry and trig in your solution because the license on the use of the two weren't compatible. That doesn't mean either is less valueable
Re:Slashdot is hard to understand (Score:2)
Re:It's Java that's the trouble (Score:2)
Your basic complaint is that Sun's reference implementation of Java isn't under a GPL or BSD license. However, the language itself is fully specified, the JDK is free of charge, you can even include the JRE in your own product. Anyone is free to implement their own JDK, as far as I can tell, and some people and companies are doing this. Java is a much more clear-cut environment than
It's about community, not licenses. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:It's about community, not licenses. (Score:3, Informative)
> my question for Sun Microsystems is "all right, and what are you
> prepared to do to help a community form?"
Well, for starters, check out the OpenSolaris Community Manager's Blog [sun.com] and Technorati's OpenSolaris "tag" (category) site [technorati.com]...
Re:It's about community, not licenses. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Sun is dying (Score:3, Interesting)
Solaris 10 has a number of features over Linux and Windows, and Sun is now officially cheaper to buy from than Red Hat and Microsoft. Don't be so quick to write them off, especially since they turned profitable.
Jonathan Schwartz comments on CDDL (Score:1)