>A friend mentioned to me today that it was interesting that Sun licensed Java >under GPLv2, but Solaris under CDDL, and that it would have seemed more >logical to license them the other way around. On the surface this is true, >but for those that know what is underneath the surface, know that it couldn't >be GPL even if folks wanted that, due to the contents as a whole.
I think you friend does not understand much of licensing; one of the nice things of the CDDL is that it allows you to build things without having to go to the trouble to publish all your modifications. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
