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Sun Submits New License for Open Source Approval

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-don't-play-well-with-others dept.

Wannabe Code Monkey writes "Sun has submitted their Common Development and Distribution License to the Open Source Initiative for approval as an Open Source license. It appears that this license is what Sun plans to release Solaris under according to an article at news.com.com.com. Of particular note is: 'The CDDL is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, since it contains requirements that are not in the GPL,' Claire Giordano of Sun's CDDL team said in its submission."

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If you RTFA... by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The GPL has the viral component that removes the right of authors to license their work however they like...

    If you use a GPL library you can't then MPL your parts of your code.

    I'm not saying the GPL is evil (I used to really like it, until I ran up against this insanity), but it could sure use some updating.

  2. Re:Theyre defending IP by otis+wildflower · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If the GPL wasn't like this, Microsoft (or anyone else) could just "fork" Linux, put a windows sticker on it and call it their own, without returning anything to the community or making any of their changes redistributable.

    In other words, BSD.