I really don't understand why we are all supposed to care so much about what Debian do, or what Danese Cooper said. Debian have their own licensing culture, and it's only right and proper that they decide what fits in with their world view. As others have already pointed out this isn't a purely GPL versus non-GPL thing as they seem comfortable with the Apache license, and presumably the CDDL's first cousin the MPL - I assume Debian includes code that is covered under the MPL. I think characterising this as an attack by Debian on the CDDL is a little melodramatic.
As for Danese, well she chose to go work for someone else, and as I understand it the comments she made about the CDDL were after she left Sun. I'm therefore a little puzzled as to why her opinions would be taken as representing Sun's "official" position when they clearly are not. My opinion (and purely mine) is that this is a matter for Joerg and Debian to sort out - just because the CDDL was reused for cdrtools it doesn't follow that this is some sort of war between Debian and OpenSolaris, or between the GPL and the CDDL. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
