]
] Sun has just submitted a newly created license, the CDDL,
] to OSI for approval. Or not. They don't say officially if
] this is the license for an open source Solaris, but,
] well, duh. Probably it depends on if it is approved or
] not, for starters. But it's not a definite, and they
] would like suggestions and input on the license, separate
] from any particular product. So, let's read it as a
] proposed license for anything. Is it an improvement over
] current licenses or not? That is the question. Also,
] should it be approved by OSI? It's taken from the
] language of the Mozilla Public License but is an attempt
] to improve it from Sun's standpoint. So I have drawn up a
] little chart, so you can compare and provide meaningful
] input.

When Netscape was initially open-sourced, it took a long time for the rest of the community outside of AOL employees to get their fingers into it because its so huge. Its worse here for Sun because
where everyone liked and wanted to use Netscape -- and in fact was the only remotely viable browser option on Linux at the time -- noone really cares about Solaris.

I think the GPL-incompatibility issue is going to prove mostly to be moot. What is there in Solaris that we'd want to put into Linux anyway? Maybe a few bits to support running on huge Suns but then how many people really have such boxes anyway?

GROKLAW on Sun's Proposed CDDL