OT: Digg - Open DS Governance Issues

[Stephen P Rufle]

Yeah I just wanted to see what people thought about the issues that came 
up. I saw commentary about just forking the OpenDS proj , but was unsure 
if that was even possible. I am currently a Java developer and hope that 
this was an isolated incident that will put pressure on Sun to better 
educate the staff about open source. Sort of the way that "Sensitivity" 
training is probably mandatory.


Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:52 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Open_DS_Governance_Issues
> ---
> I presume that this was tossed to the list for commentary but it's
> possible that the intent was to smear Sun for heavy handedness (although
> that is not entirely unexpected). It would seem that some middle manager
> at Sun made a cost cutting move and there was little consideration to
> the impact on the ramifications of that move and this project is likely
> to languish - read the backstory...
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html
> 
> I think that this story revolves around the issue of software licenses
> and to that extent, one of the software developers involved in openDS
> (and now no longer employed by Sun likely to be involved in future
> development) has a blog that discusses the CDDL License and the
> ramifications of that license...
> 
> http://directorymanager.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/why-the-dislike-for-cddl/
> 
> It is curious that Sun used LGPL for openoffice.org, CDDL for openDS and
> OpenSolaris.
> 
> I think that this continues to inure to Red Hat's good will because they
> actually purchased the Netscape Directory Server from AOL (the ashes of
> Netscape) and have released it lock, stock and barrel (and it took them
> quite some time to audit the code, assign the various parts and pieces
> to the proper license, etc.
> 
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
> 
> and a very impressive, almost AD like...
> 
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Screenshots
> 
> and I've been using it at a client's office and it works rather well all
> considered.
> 
> But I am mostly using OpenLDAP.
> 
> OpenDS is not much in use. Thankfully, you don't need to use java for
> everything (though I've seen it said that when all you have is a hammer,
> everything looks like a nail).
> 
> Craig
> 
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