Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Alvaro Lopez from our team in Ireland has certainly spent some time
> > > talking to the Debian guys about their CDDL issues, too (most
> > > recently at Debconf in Mexico, IIRC).
...
> Not off-hand, although I'm sure he's probably blogged about anything
> worth sharing... Alo?
He writes:
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The first congress I attended was the Debian Conference. We proposed a round
table to discuss the possibility of an OpenSolaris Debian based distribution. I
have to say that it was really interesting, both the round table and the
corridor talks on this topic. To make a long story short: there are many Debian
developers and Solaris users willing to turn something like that into reality,
but there are a couple of legal problems which prevent the OpenSolaris license
(CDDL) from complying with the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines). So, at
this moment, if we really want a Debian based OpenSolaris distribution, it
seems that we have two options: either we change the choice of venue clause of
CDDL, or we go ahead with the idea of dual licensing it under GPLv3.
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and it seems that he is a victim of the Debian claim that the "choice of venue
clause" in the CDDL is something that makes the CDDL non-free.
We would need to start an informatoion campaign that informs people why this
clause is only a problem for malicious distributors and users but definitely
not a problem for anyone else.
Jörg
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