Hi Joerg,
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
This is relevent for the following reasons:
- the CDDL is a file based license.
If you have the GPLd code in different files, the CDDL does not
put any restrictions on GPLd code.
Well, if the GPLed is not a "modification" of the CDDL code, sure.
- The GPL does _not_ say that the binaries need to be put under the
GPL; it only requires to also publish the sources.
And what licence, pray tell, must those sources then be made
available under?
As you see, there are no incopatible requirements.
I've explained already what the incompatibility is. Distributing
binaries doesn't avoid it.
It's an unfortunate incompatibility, due to a technicality, a
reflection perhaps of the different times the licences were written
in, but (hopefully) a transient one which will disappear (for much
GPL code anyway) when the GPLv3 is published.
The GPL has not been written by a lawyer and for this reason,
That is not true, unless you mean the long obsolete GPLv1.
I don't intend to partipicate further in this thread - the question I
posed is obviously rhethorical. And I'd caution anyone reading to be
quite wary of much of the opinion given this thread..
regards,
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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