SJVN: pull your head outta your *****

According to a rumour published, naturally, as fact by EWeek, Sun is allegedly going to relicense OpenSolaris under GPLv3.I have a number of problems with SJVN and EWeek.Firstly, the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board (CAB) have no knowledge of this idea. If the governing body for OpenSolaris have no knowledge about this, and have serious reservations about it …. then it’s unlikely at best to happen.Secondly, it is somewhat well-known that GPLv3 is still in draft form only. Sure, it seems to have solidified somewhat from earlier versions, but it’s still a draft. Who in their right mind would think that anybody would release software using that license as it stands right now? It might end up being very popular, and Sun might in fact want to use it for OpenSolaris…. but until the OpenSolaris CAB, the OpenSolaris community and Sun all agree, there is no relicensing going to happen.Thirdly, SJVN allows his own biases against non-GPLv2 licenseware to colour his misunderstanding of the benefits which other licenses provide, including the CDDL.Fourthly … why should I bother?SJVN is such a poor journalist that I’d call him a pundit and lump him in with Ann Coulter and Gerard Henderson.