On 12/06/07, Brendan O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, it's my understanding that the OpenBSD folk want to have as many people using their code as possible, so they need as-free-as-possible code. Copyleft locks down certain commercial uses of it, so it doesn't support that goal; it's more than mere handwaving to them, it's part of their philosophy and goals. The GNU people, naturally, have very different goals.
I'm not aware of any specific commercial uses that would be prohibited by the CDDL. You can statically, dynamically, or whatever link to CDDL code; it isn't like the LGPL. As I said, I haven't heard any good reasons yet. The most pathetic one I've seen is complaints about the choice-of-venue clause where some people believe the author of the software apparently deserves less protection than the user even though the author is the one that created the valuable item they're using in the first place. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
