On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi-- > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, krad wrote: > [ ... ] >>> is that even possible with CDDL? >>> >> >> im not a lawyer but it wouldn't surprise me > > I'm not a lawyer either, but I was active in reviewing and suggesting changes > to CDDL submission for OSI approval back in 2004. > > A copyright owner always has the ability to relicense their code under other > terms, but existing code is guaranteed to be available, redistributable to > others, etc under the terms of the current version of CDDL; in particular see: > >> 4. Versions of the License. >> >> • 4.1. New Versions. >> >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the initial license steward and may publish >> revised and/or new versions of this License from time to time. Each version >> will be given a distinguishing version number. Except as provided in Section >> 4.3, no one other than the license steward has the right to modify this >> License. >> >> • 4.2. Effect of New Versions. >> >> You may always continue to use, distribute or otherwise make the Covered >> Software available under the terms of the version of the License under which >> You originally received the Covered Software. If the Initial Developer >> includes a notice in the Original Software prohibiting it from being >> distributed or otherwise made available under any subsequent version of the >> License, You must distribute and make the Covered Software available under >> the terms of the version of the License under which You originally received >> the Covered Software. Otherwise, You may also choose to use, distribute or >> otherwise make the Covered Software available under the terms of any >> subsequent version of the License published by the license steward. > > If Oracle chooses, they might make future changes to the ZFS source code > under different or more restrictive licensing terms, but what's available now > is always going to be available.
The same of basic principle applies to BDB; originally it was BSD licensed in 1.x under FreeBSD, then GPLed in 2.x+ (IIRC), then left to pasture in 4.x after Oracle acquired Sleepycat DB. MySQL is GPLv2 today... who knows what it might be tomorrow... Cheers, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
