On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Francis Earl
I think it's more important to note that the people that own the copyrights on the code DO NOT want it combined with code that doesn't let them maintain ownership. In the case of Sun's CDDL, they require you to sign everything you do over to them, that's fair? No. It's not the evil GPL, it's Sun trying to accomplish proprietary open source, that isn't right.
The internet is really amazing. Those who are the most clueless are the ones who like to speak with most confidence. Pretending being an expert in the internet must be the coolest thing in these last years. Why its not fair? If its not fair, dont use it. Dont come with this panacea "proprietary open source", you hardly even understand what you are talking about. Not to mention Sun is a major contributor of open source code. First of all, Sun, FSF, FreeBSD, Mysql, Apache, CUPS, lots of projects have definitions on shared copyright assignments (like sun contribution agreement) or some mechanism that unifies copyright ownership. The main implication on this is that it makes possible an easy license change in the future and to . This links explains the downsides and upsides of this policy: http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/sca_r_office Of course, Sun is trying to make "proprietary open source", but apache, mysql, the guy from cups, they are just awesome, right?
As for BSD, I don't think most in this day and age really want to hand over their hard work so others can benefit without giving anything back, that is why BSD license will never catch on, but it's certainly a much better license than anything Sun, Apple, or Microsoft have come up with. It's a joke that people even make such arguments STILL.
I see you keep trolling. Oh, the corporations *cry* *cry*. Even though the CDDL from Sun is based on Mozilla MPL. But of course Mozilla license must be awesome, its not a company, right? I would take your statements and predictions with a grain of salt, internet expert. regards Marcio --- Druid -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org