Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster writes: > >> Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Andrew Suffield writes: >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: >>>>> CDDL works similar way, except on per-file basis. >>>> >>>> This is incomprehensible gibberish. >>> >>> This is unsupportable hyperbole. Erast's statement may be inapt, >>> wrong, misleading, or have any number of other flaws, but it is >>> neither incomprehensible nor gibberish. >> >> I do not comprehend what he means with "CDDL works on a per-file basis, >> GPL does not". One can of course create a project made up of GPL'ed >> source files and other source files with different, GPL-compatible >> licenses. > > The CDDL (based as it is on the MPL) allows you to mix CDDL-licensed > files in a project with files under CDDL-incompatible licenses and > distribute the resulting executable.
Sorry, I didn't imagine that a license with such a clause exists, and less that anybody would call it free. Thanks for the clarification, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
