Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC
Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. 
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> From what I understand Sun have created a licence that make it hard for Solaris technology to spread into other open source projects using more commonly used licenses such as the GPL.
What makes you think that? From where I stand CDDL actually offers me more freedom since it doesn't have the viral clause and allows me to link against CDDL libraries without the phenomenal GPL headachess. CDDL is easier to deal with and and more comfortable than GPL. As soon as you shake off the religious prejudice with GPL, you'll see that...