On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:18 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:10 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL > >> > variant of dpkg. Will Debian community be happy? But this is sort of > >> > duplication of work. I do not think that the goal of Debian community is > >> > to force developers do duplicate their work. > >> > >> It's the intention of the GPL to force release of software without > >> restrictions like the ones that the CDDL has. > > > > Once again, CDDL doing *exactly* the same thing as GPL does with > > CDDL-licensed files. i.e. forces developers to contribute their changes > > back. > > The GPL does not force developers to "contribute their changes back". > That's exactly the *point*.
Explain please. Lets assume you have GPL-ed project dpkg. Any change to foo.c must be contributed back to the community. Also GPL-ed dpkg could be easily distributed as a binary if it is not part of the system. The way KDE and other GPL-ed software distributed in projects like www.blastwave.org, cygwin, etc. CDDL works similar way, except on per-file basis. Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
