> Hi Joerg, > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > The people around the GPL (let me call them this > way) don't like > > the CDDL > > What people? RMS has said "<the CDDL> is a free > software license": > > > ttp://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18 > 25&tstart=0 > > The CDDL is listed as a free software licence on the > FSF website: > > > ttp://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLInc > ompatibleLicenses > > Broad-spectrum characterisations of people's views > tend to be > wrong...
In the thread you referenced, RMS said in part: > Consider the wonderful cross-pollination between > OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, and the vast repertoire of the FSF. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that if BSD and GPL code is actually linked together, the result would have to be under GPL. If that's the case, there's something of a sucking sound as stuff gets scrounged out of BSD and goes into GPL licensed software (and Linux in particular). That's hardly fair, IMO. OTOH, it seems that in practice, code has gone from OpenSolaris back to BSD (or Darwin/Mac OS X): namely, dtrace and zfs. Maybe that's the strategy: boost the BSDs and MacOS, and take on both Windows and Linux. :-) In a perfect world, I suppose everything would be open. It's not a perfect world, last I checked. Some folks decide that they serve their investors, users, or whatever best with different open licenses, or with closed licenses. The ability to make that choice is also freedom. If I had to pick one license just so everything would be compatible, it would be BSD (including the old advertising clause, and with plenty of liability disclaimers added). The argument that one can take that code and make something closed out of it is bogus to my mind; that's just a closed fork, and the open code it was based on is still there and in no way diminished just because someone wasn't force to release their additions and changes as widely as the original contributor did. But I don't expect anyone to agree with me, especially not the ideologues that think they can achieve their vision of the perfect world with nonsense like viral licenses. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
