Hello again, Last tentative: what's wrong with my request that I don't get _any_ answer?
We have contacts within Sun with good will, we've got here a chance to influence (employees from) Sun with constructive remarks, but I need someone knowledgeable who helps me on the legal side, and tells me what I need to pay attention to respectively ask the Sun persons to pay attention to. And, no, I couldn't find a summary of the critical points in a CDDL license (a mailing thread with some people saying this, others writing that, is not exactly helpful to me). A link would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric > Hello, > > I sent the below email already a while ago, but didn't receive any answer. > Can someone tell me what's wrong? Did I miss some important point of > netiquette, or FAQ to read before asking stupid questions? > > Thanks, Eric > > Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> our package msv-xsdlib [1] has been refused even from non-free due to >> license issues. Hence I've contacted the upstream developer (from Sun) >> and >> got the answer below. >> >> As I understand from different discussions that the CDDL license in >> critical in regard to "freeness", I have some questions: >> 1. will a CDDL license allow us to put the package at least into >> non-free? >> 2. will a CDDL license allow us to put the package into main/contrib? >> 3. if answers to 1 and 2 are negative, any idea what might be an >> alternative? >> >> Background of question 3 is that someone on the list might have an idea >> which other license could be acceptable to Sun (and I might suggest it >> to >> the developer). >> >> Any other inputs/recommendations are of course welcome in these >> difficult >> times! >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Eric >> >> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296643 >> >> ---------------------------- Original Message >> ---------------------------- >> Subject: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib >> From: "Kohsuke Kawaguchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, September 5, 2006 19:23 >> To: "Eric Lavarde" <xxx> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Eric Lavarde wrote: >>> Hello Kohsuke, >>> >>> a while ago, and you probably don't remember it, I asked you about the >> license of the xsdlib library (see >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296643). >>> >>> It took some time but Arnaud Vandyck and myself tried to get the >>> package >> into Debian, but failed due to license issues. >>> Could you please have a look at the attached emails, and tell me if >> you're able to fix the problems flagged by the Debian team? We would >> really appreciate your support, as your library is necessary to us (e.g. >> for FreeMind, http://freemind.sf.net/). >> >> I'll see if can change the license to CDDL. Will let you know once >> that's >> done. >> > > -- Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]