Bryan Cantrill on Moving Solaris from Proprietary to Open Source

Bryan Cantrill · Talk · YouTube title: Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

Why it's here

HN commenters cite it for the history of open source at Sun and Oracle, and for Cantrill's explanation of licensing choices.

What it covers

Bryan Cantrill's OSCON 2015 talk on moving a proprietary product to open source, drawing on Sun's history with Solaris and illumos, licensing choices and the relicensing after Oracle's acquisition.