Dan Cross 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 -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/