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CDDL Project Leader on the CDDL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plus-it's-cool-to-make-new-licenses dept.

SunFan writes "Claire Giordano, Sun's lead on CDDL development, gives the inside story on how the new license was developed. She discusses how people within Sun debated the various licenses, including the GPL, and shows why the GPL, BSD, and MPL licenses were found to come up short in meeting the needs of Sun's broad customer and developer base."

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  1. Re:Real Problem by SunFan · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Many licenses are compatible with this, and the "viral" clause does not stop you from making the code available under any other license you like as well."

    Non-GPL code becomes GPL. It's like an irreversible chemical reaction, unless you happen to own the copyright to all the code to begin with.

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