>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
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