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Friday, September 29th, 2006

Bob Sutor on GPL3

Just noticed Bob Sutor has posted on the GPL3 debate. I couldn’t agree more with his position. Just think… when did an open community last have the chance to haggle over the terms of Windows 1/2/3/3.5/95/NT/98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista (or Oracle, IBM, licenses for that matter)?

The GPL3 debate is not a weakness for the open source community - this is actually the strength of it. Many don’t see all the debate in the Linux kernel community - but there’s always some debate going on, differences of opinion are aired, and eventually a consensus is formed. And surprisingly it all happens faster than some standards bodies…
Did you ever participate in an open debate on the CDDL terms? Here’s an opportunity for the entire community to debate the pros/cons, ups/downs of a license the community can form.
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1102Â