In the last few months I've seen more and more speculation about the prospect of dual-licensing OpenSolaris under GPLv3. In November Jonathan very publically asked Rich if he would look into it, and everyone knows that we are fully engaged in the GPLv3 process. As Rich has made clear, we're looking into it. No decisions have been made. We've seen discussions in blogs (Rich, Simon) and in the news (CNet, eWeek), but I haven't seen much in the OpenSolaris community itself.

I think that we ("we" being all of you) should be asking ourselves what we think about GPLv3. What would it mean to the community if we dual-licensed? It's now a possibility that we could attach an "assembly exception" to the GPLv3 which would let us mix GPL and CDDL code. This could open up a world of possibilities.

But what are the downsides? What does the community, you, think of the way GPLv3 is taking shape? These are important issues and I urge everyone with an opinion to voice it sooner rather than later.

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The next stop on the Sun Tech Days tour is Atlanta. As my hometown, I couldn't stay away, so look for me there.

January 16th is a free OpenSolaris day. The normal Solaris and Java tracks then run January 17-18th. Karen Tegan-Padir, VP of Enterprise Java Platforms, and James Gosling, the father of Java, will be keynoting. Make sure you register soon.

I'll be hanging around the Solaris track with Teresa. Make sure you stop by and say "hello". We're not easily missed. ;-)

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Interview with your's truly by Sean Michael Kerner about OpenSolaris and what's coming from Sun: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3653196.

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