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Wednesday, January 19 2005 @ 06:56 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
Sun's CDDL license authorized for use, now it's up to Sun to "open source" Solaris.
The Open Source Initiative has approved Sun Microsystems' CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), paving the way for the Santa Clara, Calif., company to proceed with its plan to release its Solaris operating system as an open-source project.
But if Sun does use the CDDL for its Open Solaris project, as is expected, one of this license's benefits for developers and the open-source community is that "with the CDDL, if you read it carefully, Sun will convey all of its patents to the community, and not just 500 like IBM recently did, " a source close to the company told eWEEK.
Sun also is considering open-sourcing its JES (Java Enterprise System) under the CDDL. "Everything that is built at Sun would fall under the CDDL" if that happened, the source said.
Full details on Open Solaris, including its license and the community development and governance models, could be released as early as next week.
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Authored by: joemacman on Thursday, January 20 2005 @ 07:16 PM EST
Sun's CCDL != MPL != GPL.
As the article noted:
"Claire Giordano, a member of Sun's CDDL team, said in a letter
accompanying the submission that 'like the Mozilla Public License, the
CDDL is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, since it contains
requirements that are not in the GPL [GNU General Public License].'"
Here's Sun's sleazy bit, read carefully:
"But some open-source developers are angered by the CDDL move
because Sun has already integrated some GPL technologies into Solaris.
Now, they said, Sun merely wants to stop its own technologies licensed
under the CDDL from getting into GPL-licensed software projects."
Sun is doing a run-around the GPL: whilst it freely uses GPL'ed code in
Solaris, it is now trying to prevent Solaris from being GPL'ed.
Authored by: joemacman on Thursday, January 20 2005 @ 07:24 PM EST
Sun's CCDL != MPL != GPL.
As the article noted:
"Claire Giordano, a member of Sun's CDDL team, said in a letter
accompanying the submission that 'like the Mozilla Public License, the
CDDL is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, since it contains
requirements that are not in the GPL [GNU General Public License].'"
Here's Sun's sleazy bit, read carefully:
"But some open-source developers are angered by the CDDL move
because Sun has already integrated some GPL technologies into Solaris.
Now, they said, Sun merely wants to stop its own technologies licensed
under the CDDL from getting into GPL-licensed software projects."
Sun is doing a run-around the GPL: whilst it freely uses GPL'ed code in
Solaris, it is now trying to prevent Solaris from being GPL'ed.
