The CDDL is yet another reason why the OSI (started by Perens, Raymond and
others to "re-brand" Free Software) was a really
bad (and dangerous) idea.
I complained to Larry Rosen (who approved CDDL as an OSI-compliant license)
and others about this back at TPOSSCON.
I'm concerned about "Free as in speech". Its not clear that the CDDL permits
software Freedom.
*shrug* They come in all flavors. I don't mean to start a licensing
war, but all licenses have some restrictions or other (and hence
not strictly "free"). The only truely free IP is in the public domain.
I have my favorite and licenses I care less about. I'm glad to see
sun grant access to their sources, no matter how you want to
categorize their license. Would I want to use it in a product?
Probably not, but it will be useful the next time I need to know
EXACTLY how something works.
Jim
Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
