Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:57:22PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
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>>On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:46:16AM -0800, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
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>>>Why? We have GPL in-tree, and AFAICT GPL is worse than CDDL.
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>>Is it?
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>>I personally can understand GPL - but I am unable to parse even the first
>>10% of CDDL.
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>My understanding is that CDDL is similar to the GPL in what it says about 
>a given file. The main issue, though, is that it ONLY applies to the 
>covered files; it is not viral.
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Correct.

You can add new files as part of the same library or program
that is otherwise CDDL and your new files do not need to be CDDL.

Darren