Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses?
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Subject: Star & FreeBSD


Hi,

Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL
tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy.

Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD?

Compared to star-1.4, star-1.5 gives a lot of new features, e.g.:

-       a true incremental backup/restore mode that uses the
        same basic philosophy as ufsdump/ufsrestore does
        but with a portable archive format.

-       Support for more than the star command line syntax.
        Star now can be combined as "star_fat" and then uses
        a command line interface that depends on av[0]:

        star    the generic star command line interface

        tar     Compatible to Sun tar which is a true enhancement
                to the bsd tar program

        gtar    Compatible to GNU tar

        cpio
        scpio   Compatible to cpio

        pax     compatible to pax

The nice side effect is that you may have a program that behaves 98% like
gnu tar but is not based on the GPL.

If you have questions, please ask...

Jörg

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