Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote:
> * when do the CDDL patent protections apply? to deals between Oracle
> and Netapp? or is it only protection against Oracle patents? I
> think the latter, but then, which Oracle patents? Suppose:
The CDDL gives patent grants to all patents that relate to code code published
by the patent owner. This is the maximum possible patent protection that is
possible by a OS license.
> * AIUI Oracle has distributed grub with zfs patches, and grub is
> GPLv3. Is this true? If so, GPLv3 includes stuff to extend patent
> deals, which was added becuase GPLv3 was written under the ominous
> spectre of the Microsoft-Novell Linux indemnification deal. Does
> GPLv3 grub extend any of the Netapp deal to those patented
> algorithms which are used within grub? The GPLv3 is supposed to do
> some of this, but I don't know how much.
The GPLv3 does not give you more protection that the CDDL does and the GPLv3 is
a really problematic license. Note that while there existist numerous papers
from lawyers that consistently explain which parts of the GPLv2 are violating
US law and thus are void, there is noting like that for GPLv3 already, so you
live in uncertainty. As an important part in the GPLv3 is written in a very
ambiguous way, GPLv3 seems to carry a high risk of being sued.
Jörg
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