Jonathan's Blog: Thinking About GPL3...

"Having Solaris available on all these systems creates options for customers--as legacy systems near end of life, or as with Intel's Itanium, inch toward decommitment.

"We also recognize that diversity and choice are important--which is why 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..."

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