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Sun CTO: New License Protects Developer Rights
Authored by: joemacman on Wednesday, February 09 2005 @ 07:21 AM EST
"Sun Protection" or The Right to Be Sued?
For those programmers who are considering between GPL Linux versus
CCDL Open Solaris, here's a simple question: Can Sun sue you for alleged
violation(s) of its CCDL?
Still, for me, the best "sun protection" is SPF 45 with GPL Linux.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: saying that something is "open
source" is, from a legal standpoint, mostly meaningless -- the devil is in
the copyright or patent licencing details being granted.
Patented inventions themselves are "open source": in exchange for an
exclusive time-limited right to use an invention the inventor must
disclose and describe the invention to the world.
See generally, U.S.
Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 8 ("To promote the Progress of Science
and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries").
