Subject: Re: CDDL (was Re: Star & NetBSD)
To: None <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, david@vex.net>
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/11/2005 17:17:55
David Maxwell <david@vex.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You cut out section 3.1, so I'll repeat it.
>
> "Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in
> Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that
> Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this
> License."

Looks like you omit 3.9 in order to "prove" your false claim about the 
viral nature of the CDDL.

Jörg

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