Rich Green maintained on a corporate blog posting that it just ain’t so not least because the terms of the forthcoming GPLv3 have not yet been finalized. Green added that the Santa Clara, California-based company continues to monitor GPLv3 and will give serious consideration to dual licensing as and when it is finalized.
OpenSolaris is currently distributed under Sun’s Common Development and Distribution License, but as long ago as February 2006 Sun’s then-chief operating officer and now chief executive officer, Jonathan Schwartz speculated that GPLv3 might be an option.
Sun opted for version 2 of the GPL for the November 2006 launch of its open source Java Standard Edition implementation.
