On Monday 07 August 2006 03:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why? OSI is what matters and OSI has made CDDL one of 9 "preferred" > licenses.
Right, but the OSI doesn't actually write open source software. > I'm sorry; I don't follow. GPL is not an entity which allows are > accepts; do you mean the FSF? Sure, or the folks that would bless it. If Debian is a problem, to work out with the Debian folks why CDDL doesn't mix with GPL. > I'm sorry Alan, but the reason why we use the CDDL is precisely because > the GPL is a "viral" license; it's the GPL which limits mingling > with foreign code. Agreed, but if those very folks restrict the use of CDDL, it doesn't matter who blesses the CDDL, IMO. > Because OpenSolaris contains a large body of foreign code we cannot > use the GPL and because we do not use the GPL we cannot mingle with > the GPL. We knew that but we cannot change that. But it's an issue > with the GPL; not an issue with the CDDL. It is an issue for CDDL, as a case in point it seems that Debian is having a problem, yet what it is exactly is not clear to me, but there seems to be some contention. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
