Subject: Re: CDDL (was Re: Star & NetBSD)
To: None <david@vex.net, alec@thened.net>
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/11/2005 16:22:45
David Maxwell <david@vex.net> wrote:

> Also - from the first entry in the FAQ: 
>
> "We wanted a copyleft license that..."
>
> That section 3.1 is definitly viral. That's incompatible with NetBSD's
> Goals.
>

The CDDL is not vial, the GPL is.

The difference is that the GPL "infects" code that it is linked to
with the GPL. This is not true for the CDDL.

Jörg

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