Nikola M. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/14/14 07:02 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> > Furthermore it is nonsense what you write about the CDDL terms. The > > CDDL permits the developer to keep the src closed, similar to the Xorg > > license. > I would say it is nonsense what you just said. Re-reading CDDL could > refresh some memories. > Binaries derived from CDDL distributed code that is NOT open source are > ILLEGAL and anyone using those binaries it can be prosecuted (in every > country in the world). > So everyone using binaries that are made from illegally closed source > code is in legal jeopardy. This is not correct: The CDDL is file based and you are allowed to add new files that you may keep secret. You however need to publish everything you modified and that was under CDDL. > This is not in the spirit of Copyleft license like CDDL, where changed code > is obliged to be released both to the end user and to the public, the moment > when derived binaries are distributed. > CDDL is weak copyleft, like LGPL, where one can mix CDDL with otherwise > licensed files, > but changes in CDDL code must be released or they represent violation of the > license for all users of binaries and are not legal to use unless code is > open.. This is why Oracle it in conflict with the CDDL. Oracle does not own all code from OpenSolaris and for this reason, Oracle would need to make all related code available in case they modified the code compared to the version from August 2010. As Oracle does not own the rights, Oracle cannot convert CDDLd code to closed source. But even if they could, they would be in confict with the German law as the German law forbids to sell copies of copyrighted material in case the owners of the code are not payed fairly or the code is OSS. Given the fact that Sun did not pay me for the the code I added to "hsfs" (I own aprox. 1/3 of the code) Oracle is illegally distributing copies of Solaris. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/' _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
