Sunday January 29, 2006 Random ramblings
Sunday January 29, 2006 JS blogs on GPLv3 and OpenSolaris
Jonathan Schwartz has blogged about the GPLv3, including the possibility of dual-licencing OpenSolaris under both it and the CDDL:
we've begun looking at the possibility of releasing Solaris (and potentially the entire Solaris Enterprise System), under dual open source licenses. CDDL (which allows customer IP to safely comingle with Solaris source code) and under the Free Software Foundation's GPL3. It's early days, but we're looking at two things as we make that decision.
Interesting 
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The patent-pooling features introduced with the CDDL were some of the key restrictions missing from the GPLv2, as well as one of the crucial incompatibilities between the CDDL and the GPLv3. On that count at least, the GPLv3 thankfully has introduced language to make the GPL compatible with the CDDL. I don't know myself if the GPLv3 and CDDL are fully compatible in all other respects, but it seems closeish. Even if they are not, dual-licencing would settle the issue - presuming the GPLv3 works for Sun. A question which, one can safely assume from JS's post, is being examined very carefully at the moment.
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