Thursday October 06, 2005
Thursday October 06, 2005 Murphy on OpenSolaris and CDDL
For the record, I have never met him, never spoken with him, have not bought him flowers nor given him stock tips. All the same, he gets CDDL, and he gets the problems we were trying to solve when drafting CDDL. Jim blogged it here, and Chris Baker sent me a timely email pointer to the article as well. Thanks, guys. Paul Murphy's article is here, and for those of you who are link averse the relevant quotes about CDDL and OpenSolaris are:
"The best answer so far, at least in my opinion as a non lawyer, is Sun's community development license. Basically this is a have your cake and eat it too deal: developers keep proprietary code proprietary, participate in the free as in freedom world being built up around openSolaris, and work inside a patent umbrella held up, not just by Sun, but by mutual agreement among participating developers. In other words, Joe developer can adopt openSolaris and the CDDL ( Common Development Distribution License) without spending a nickel on legal fees and be reasonably confident that not doing something criminal (or just criminally stupid) will suffice to protect himself from legal action."
"Combine the CDDL with the fact that Solaris is the best OS around, and it's easy to see why the openSolaris community is exploding..."
p.s. to Paul: I'm a proud 'vi' user, too. But not on a Sun 60. :-)
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