From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 09:15:50 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: <586d2cb8.bX/Qr+lraMBvukp9%schily@schily.net> References: <20170104024127.GN12264@mcvoy.com> <20170104033512.GA22116@mcvoy.com> <586d234d.vf4JCu1Ye3gumwfc%schily@schily.net> <586d297d.1Xe1F+MbZU5jlMCH%schily@schily.net> <20170104170635.GB3405@mcvoy.com> <586d2cb8.bX/Qr+lraMBvukp9%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: <20170104171550.GD3405@mcvoy.com> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 06:11:20PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > The Sun employees have been asked whether they would support the BSD license > > > and many of then said that they will terminate their contract if Sun uses BSD. > > > > Huh? First of all, Sun employees don't have a contract, they are (or were) > > at will employees. So I think you mean they would quit if it were BSD > > licensed. > > > > Second, I've _never_ heard a single Sun person say they would quit if Sun > > open sourced something under the BSD license. I'm sure I've heard someone > > say they didn't like that license but never heard anyone giving up their > > job over it. > > I discussed the possible options for an OpenSolaris license with Andrew Tucker > in September 2004 during a dinner. Andrew Tucker was "distinguished engineer" > and the chief architect for the OpenSolaris creation. > > BTW: this fact has been confirmed by Simon Phipps, so I am very sure about it. "this fact" being that "many" Sun employees were prepared to quit if Solaris was BSD licensed? I'd like to see a list of those people, I find it extremely hard to believe, but data will change my opinion.