Jeff Savit wrote:
I understand that this is a point of controversy. Some will agree with
you, some will not.
I consider CDDL to be open source (as with the Mozilla Public License on
which it was based) and so does the OSI. But I recognise that not
everyone will share that stance.
I note that Debian feels so strongly about CDDL that when Jörg Schilling
decided to license cdrecord only under CDDL, it forked cdrecord. I also
note other vendors have declined to distribute Schilling's version. I
don't remember all the details, but when I checked at the time I found
myself agreeing with Debian (which is never a foregone conclusion).
Additionally, "This is a free software license. It has a copyleft with a
scope that's similar to the one in the Mozilla Public License, which
makes it incompatible with the GNU GPL. This means a module covered by
the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked
together. "
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
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Cheers
John
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