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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CDDL is a CDDL only community. Once you use CDDL software you are stuck. If you take methods and concepts from patent protected CDDL software to use in non-CDDl software you can be sued by SUN. Sun's engineer's might not like it but that is the license SUN's management wrote. If you incorporate CDDL code in your project, you only have to give back the files of CDDl project, thus undermining the entire CONCEPT of OPEN SOURCE. One Open's the Source code to all, not to the select changes you made for your Closed app. An App which is then able to be targeted by Sun's Patent lawyers.
Sure the GPL is viral but if your using Source code from an Open Source project but don't really care about Open Source you don't have a right to complain. To a point the CDDL s under the same branch only now Sun can threaten you with a patent lawsuit for misuing CDDL code.
IBM, Nokia, and several others though don't care what license you use as long as it is approved by the OSI.(which the CDDL is) So it's prefectly acceptable to use IBM's patents under Solaris but not use Sun's Solaris Patents under Linux or the BSD's.
Now where is that catch 22 by Sun again. You can only use Sun Stuff for Solaris only. That means project Looking Glass can't be used on Solaris anymore.