Comment by spamizbad
6 years ago
Wow... talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Oracle ended up abandoning OpenSolaris within a year or so.
Edit: Nevermind, debunked by Bryan Cantrill. It was to allow for proprietary drivers.
6 years ago
Wow... talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Oracle ended up abandoning OpenSolaris within a year or so.
Edit: Nevermind, debunked by Bryan Cantrill. It was to allow for proprietary drivers.
Not at all really. Danese Cooper says that Cantrill is not a reliable witness and one can say he also has an agenda to distort the facts in this way [1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008921
And Cooper's boss:
> Simon Phipps (Sun's Chief Open Source Officer at the time), who had introduced Cooper as "the one who actually wrote the CDDL",[19] did not immediately comment, but later in the same video, he says, referring back to the license issue, "I actually disagree with Danese to some degree",[20] while describing the strong preference among the engineers who wrote the code for a BSD-like license, which was in conflict with Sun's preference for something copyleft, and that waiting for legal clearance to release some parts of the code under the then unreleased GNU GPL v3 would have taken several years, and would probably also have involved mass resignations from engineers (unhappy with either the delay, the GPL, or both—this is not clear from the video). Later, in September 2006, Phipps rejected Cooper's assertion in even stronger terms.[21]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...
So of the available licenses at the time, Engineering wanted BSD and Legal wanted (to wait for) GPLv3, so the compromise was CDDL.