"Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@nexenta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Ross Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > And there lies the problem, you need the agreement of all copyright
> > > holders in a GPL project to change it's licensing terms and some
> > > just will not budge.
> >
> > Joerg is correct that CDDL code can legally live right alongside the
> > GPLv2 kernel code and run in the same program. It is a "mind set"
> > issue with the Linux developers rather than a legal one.
>
> My understanding is that no, this is not possible. IANAL, but I think
> the provisions of CDDL with respect to granting patent license and
> choice of law venue are incompatible with GPL's stipulations.
> Conventional wisdom and detailed analysis done by lawyers is that you
> can't mix and match these licenses this way.
You are obviously mistaken. The text you quote was not written by lawyers but
by laymen. If you did ask laywers, you would get a confirmation for my
statements.
Jörg
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