begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:27:58PM -0600: > OSI approval is a good thing, OSI seems to be pretty fair on > approval/disapproval.
Yes. > THat doesn't mean its GPL compatible though. The True. > FSF keeps a list of what licenses are/are not GPL compatible legaly, as > analyzed by their lawyers. Its not a list of licenses they > approve/disapprove of (in fact, several that are compatible they give > reasons for disliking, and several that aren't they mention having good > points that will probably be picked up in GPL v 3.0), but those that you > can freely swap code between. Good point. > According to the fsf, the CDDL is a free software license (it follows the > tenets of free software), but is NOT compatible with the GPL. Which means > Linux code cannot go into Solaris without uthor approval of a dual license. > Going the other way may be possible, it would depend on the exact wording > of the CDDL. > > The text from the FSF: > > Sun Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) > This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; it has > some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That > is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot > legally be linked together. Hm. I wonder how it fits with the LGPL. (I tend to prefer the LGPL over the GPL.) > We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason. You know, this sort of advice given /about/ the GPL tends to get people rather irate. > Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term "intellectual > property". True. [snip] > Being able to see how they're implemented will greatly speed up Linux > implementation, even if it can't be straight ported. We shall see. I actually doubt it's clever coding tricks that make the different, but rather that it's an architectural difference; to incorporate the changes would be to make the Linux kernel enough like OpenSolaris to make it not worth the bother to not run OpenSolaris. But that's just unfounded speculation, tinged with cyncism. :) -Stewart "Compilable source I may compile counts as open-source to me" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
