COSTAR OpenSolaris Presentation @ SFU Surrey
Yesterday I had a presentation on OpenSolaris to Committee for Open Software Technology and Application Research (COSTAR) group at SFU Surrey campus. Topics that I touched upon were
- OpenSolaris overview
- Project governance and structure (including licensing choice)
- Community relationship with Sun (governing, contribution, sponsorship)
- OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10
- Why Solaris?
Open source enthusiasts at SFU socializing before presentation
Introducing OpenSolaris
We were joined by Dr. Ed Merks, IBM Toronto. Dr. Merks gave a presentation on Eclipse Modeling Framework.
I did not do very well in terms of answering questions on OpenSolaris contribution and licensing. In fact, open source licensing terms has always been sort of a myth to me. GPL, CDDL, MPL, etc, it seem like each of these licenses can be taken as a day-long discussion subject of its own. As promised, more information for questions that I couldn't address during the presentation can be accessed via the links below.
OpenSolaris Contribution process: http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/
Sun Contributor Agreement: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/sca_faq/#what-sca
Why OpenSolaris CDDL is based on MPL: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_faq/#why-MPL
OpenSolaris source download and build instruction page: http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/
Special thanks to Curtis Estinger, Sun Solaris Rep at Vancouver office for his help on the slides and content review
