« Pigs Fly And You... | Main | Copyright Office... »
20050713 Wednesday July 13, 2005

CDDL Reflections

Jim Driscoll (who is the mastermind behind Glassfish) has obviously got his competitors spooked because they are saying crazy things in public - in particular Bill Roth (ex-Sun, now BEA) is quoted as telling a straight lie (that CDDL is not real open source), I hope it's a misquote. As Claire commented on Jim's posting, we heard it all before when we used CDDL for OpenSolaris so I thought I'd collect my postings about CDDL here for easy reference:

If you only have time for one, read the last!

Posted by webmink ( Jul 13 2005, 06:17:34 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
technorati del.icio.us digg slashdot
Trackback URL: http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/cddl_reflections
Comments:

Hi Simon, I'm hoping you can help with this question regarding some of the language used in the CDDL. I'm just curious on how "You distribute or otherwise make available" should be interpreted. Here's a few scenarios: Scenario1: Suppose I setup a webstore, and a customer fills out an order entry form. Then they hit submit and the request is processed by glassfish. Did I just "Otherwise make available" glassfish to the customer? Scenario2: I build a server (Hardware and everything) that can process purchasing orders. I then use this server to process purchasing orders using glassfish for an organization. The organization pays me for this service. Am I now "otherwise making available" glassfish to the organization? Scenario 3: Scenario 2 + a user in the organization that I'm leasing the services on the server to, sends request to glassfish sitting on my server, using a browser, and glassfish sends responses back to the user in the organization. Am I now "otherwise making available" glassfish to the organization? Thanks, - Ole

Posted by Ole Ersoy on August 29, 2005 at 01:35 PM PDT #

Post a Comment:

Name:
E-Mail:
URL:

Your Comment:

HTML Syntax: NOT allowed