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>For my project it's been requested that I provide a list of all GPL
>software that links with CDDL code. To the best of my knowledge the
>only circumstance where this exists is with libc. I'm not a lawyer, but
>it's clear that Sun's legal department has determined GPL code + CDDL
>libc to not be a derivative work or at least not a risk. Maybe I'm
>mistaken because it's technically being distributed under the
>OpenSolaris binary license? Can or has someone made an official
>statement on this? If not please do so. I'm hoping that SFLC will
>resolve the matter with a real answer, but having a 2nd opinion from
>another lawyer may help a lot. I'm trying to avoid this boiling down to
>copyright holder risk assessments.
If you read the GPL license, you'll find this:
However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.
See here that it actually doesn't matter whether the library is
distributed in source or binary.
Casper
