There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is "viral." It "infects" products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the CDDL at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the portion which is essentially equivalent to the GPL. This is part of the nastiness of viral licenses. --Brett Glass At 07:06 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >> I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has been >> integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, unfortunately, that >> FreeBSD is now covered by the CDDL, which is a viral license similar to >> the GPL. Has FreeBSD abandoned its longstanding practice of keeping the >> kernel truly free? > >Maybe this blog entry brings some light: >http://blogs.sun.com/chandan/entry/copyrights_licenses_and_cddl_illustrated > >I don't see a problem. If you use CDDL licensed stuff like ZFS, you need >to provide the source, thats it. > >greetigns, >philipp _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
