Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote: > > CDDL is an OSI approved open source license > > (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are > > there to make an open source license a good open source license ? > > Complete acceptance from the open source communities.
The question would be what is "the open source communities"? The way a lot of people from Debian curently act make "Debian" probably not a part of that community. What I see as the biggest problem with the CDDL is that there are _some_ parties that spread FUD on the CDDL and that Sun did not yet try to correct this FUD. Sun should e.g. tell the FSF to correct their text on the CDDL on http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html - there is no "complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL" in the CDDL. The CDDL is rather file oriented and for this reason, there is absolutely no requirement on GPLd code (used together with the CDDL) in case CDDLd code and GPLd code are in different files. - The FSF speaks using the therm "linking" which does not apply to the GPL. - The use of "intellectual property" is with respect to two reasons: - the CDDL informs that it cannot resolve third party intellectual property claims - the CDDL forbids intellectual property claims from the author gainst users of the code. The GPL has a similar requirement for the second point and fails to deal with the first point. Only informed people from "the open source communities" will be able to judge about the "issues" correctly. If Sun let's other parties spread disinformation, the people we are talking about may believe the FUD rather then being informed about the reality. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
