Quoting Craig Sanders ([email protected]):
[ZFS code and other parts of Solaris being under CDDL:]
> which is a shame, because if it was there would be no licensing
> problem preventing it from being merged with the linux kernel.
>
> BSD is compatible with GPL, CDDL isn't.
>
> Sun did that deliberately so that GPL projects like linux couldn't use
> their code, negating most of the good will (and code contributions) they
> could have achieved from switching to an open source license.
I'm honestly not sure there wasn't a reason derived from Sun's
relations with third-party stakeholders -- mostly because that was
Netscape Communications's reason for crafting MPL to apply reciprocal
obligation or not on a code-module by code-module basis. However, I
think we're departing from the scope of luv-main, so I won't elaborate.
> yeah, well, BSD license zealots are weird. they're perfectly OK with
> proprietary software taking their code but spit the dummy when a GPL
> project does the same ("it's not fair", they say). and even with LGPL
> and other weak copyleft licenses they think it's a matter of principle
> to refuse to use it.
Yeah, boy, I've sure seen this, and been mystified.
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