Hi, > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:21:18 +1000 Nic Suzor wrote: > >> Eric Lavarde - Debian [Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 01:52:43PM +0200]: >> > Hello again, >> > >> > Last tentative: what's wrong with my request that I don't get _any_ >> > answer? >> >> You did get an answer - check message from Joe Smith [Thu Sep 14, 2006 >> at 02:05:13PM -0400]. Sorry, I'm not on the list, did check the list archive after my first tentative, but didn't do after my second. I apologize for this. Joe: your answer was perfect, sorry that I missed it. :-[
>> >> I agree with Joe, and believe that a CDDL licence will get you in to >> non-free. However, nobody is exactly sure whether CDDL is DFSG-free >> and can go into main. Which would be an improvement over today's situation for this specific piece of software :-) >> >> The main points of contention seem to be the choice of venue clause, >> the requirement to identify contributors and the restriction that >> forbids moficiation of 'descriptive' text giving attribution. I can try to address these specific points, and see what comes back. > > [...] >> If you're looking for another licence to suggest, which you know will >> get into main, try the GPL. Licence proliferation is a bad thing; >> unless there's a good reason not to, I would always suggest adopting a >> GPL-compatible licence. > > I agree that GPLv2-compatibility is an important recommendation. > > Unfortunately Sun expressed dislike for the GPL in the past and > intentionally designed the CDDL to be GPL-incompatible: as a > consequence, I don't know how far recommending the GPL will get us... > :-( I do agree, to have a chance to succeed, I think that I need to offer a way in-between to the Sun persons. Nevertheless, if the CDDL is the company policy, not much I/they can do. > Maybe another person who recommends the GPL could be useful to add > "pressure" to adopt a DFSG-free licensing scheme... I don't know... Neither do I, but if I manage to change Sun's opinion, I think you'll hear about it ;-) I'm a techie and always accepted the fact that people were saying computers are complicated; then I worked a while with Finance people, and I thought "*that* is complicated"; but I think I still need to discover legal matters :-> Cheers, Eric -- You don't need to CC me on debian-java, debian-mentors and pkg-java-maintainers. Please CC me on other Debian lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
