From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:46:01 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: <586d3fae.uf5FiS568GsBeCKB%schily@schily.net> References: <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> <20170104171550.GD3405@mcvoy.com> <586d3377.O9F94JXabKYeeaLf%schily@schily.net> <20170104174217.GG3405@mcvoy.com> <586d3556.RxSZPogSIiAqCHBk%schily@schily.net> <586d3fae.uf5FiS568GsBeCKB%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > schily at schily.net (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_ > Distribution_License > > > > Check the video mentioned there as this just lists what Simon did say. > > > > BTW: Danese Cooper was (from what I know) not involved in the CDDL at > all. > > > > I had a 2 hour telephone conference with Andrew Tucker, a Sun lawyer and > > a lady from Sun (I do no longer remember her name but it was definitely > not > > Danese). The reason for the telephone confernce was to discuss the > changes for > > the final CDDL license text. > > I just discovered the name again: The lady that was in the teleconference > has > been Claire Giordano. > 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. - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: