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.
So is GPL
If you take methods and concepts from patent protected CDDL software to use in non-CDDl software you can be sued by SUN
This is to encourage contributions back into OpenSolaris under
the CDDL. If you don't like it don't use it. It's no different
from the current situation. Use the CDDL and this problem does
not exist. Whats your point? You have the code released under an OSI approved license. You will only be 'targeted' by Suns
patent lawyers if you violate Suns patents. If you use the
CDDL this will not be the case.
The CDDL gives ISV's the option of keeping their own additions to CDDL distributions proprietary if they wish to
do so (they don't HAVE to). If they modify a CDDL file then
they MUST release it under the terms of the license.