On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:39, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to know if the CDDL [1] is an acceptable license, before I > possibly try to package jaxb from [2] for Debian. I didn't find this > license under [3]. > > Thanks, Eric > > PS: I'm *not* on the list. > > [1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php > [2] https://jaxb.dev.java.net/ > [3] http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
You can find some license summaries collected at [1]. Also try reading the comments about CDDL at [2]. The main concerns with CDDL version 1.0 are: * the choice-of-venue clause appended (you should accept of course) - you are prone to be trialed/ sued for no good reasons in exotic jurisdictions /possible legal bombs triggered by some lawsuit sharks/ * impossibility to apply anonymous modifications A possible resolution seems to be a per-case basis, but again it is too far from feasible to predict how a certain jurisdiction will change/evolve thru the time. I personally dislike such possible hard-to-predict legal 'shifting sands'. The best resolution (for me) is to wait for the next version of the license... Sun will possibly re-think these buggers over the time I hope... as they improved the old solaris licenses if I recall corectly... [1] http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/licences.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/threads.html -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
