CDDL and GNU

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 16:41 +0200, NSK wrote:
> Sun is about to release Solaris under a new licence called CDDL.
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/license/cddl_license.html
> 
> It is based on MPL 1.1. The differences are listed here: 
> http://www.sun.com/cddl/CDDL_MPL_redline.pdf
> 
> A summary can be found at http://www.sun.com/cddl/CDDL_why_details.html
> 
> I'm writing an article about it, and I would appreciate it if you could tell 
> me whether CDDL is compatible with GPL and LGPL. In addition, I would like to 
> understand whether a document released under CDDL would be compatible with 
> documentation under GFDL.

There's also patently clear patent problems. There's a detailed analysis
at Groklaw:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050121014650517

I'm personally inclined to avoid as much CDDL as possible, as it is of
right now. Yes, even *use* of such Free Software, specially if it comes
from Sun.

Rui

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