Sun Microsystems is the latest company to become a patron of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's corporate patron program allows companies to provide financial sponsorship for the FSF in return for free license consulting services. High-profile FSF patron affiliates include prominent technology companies like Google, Nokia, IBM, Cisco, and Intel. FSF involvement represents Sun's latest attempt to take a more active role in the open-source software community.
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Member since:2005-07-07
Very well said. In addition to this and my argument below (Congrats to Sun for missing the point), it's worth clarifying that the GPLv3 is almost completely ineffective when combined with the CDDL. The latter is nearly always more permissive than the GPLv3, so the more restrictive parts of it can be legally side-stepped on the grounds that the CDDL grants a license to do what the GPLv3 prohibits. Essentially:
CDDL + GPLv3 == CDDL + under-informed fanboys
Dual licensing isn't a combination of licensing. It is the process of distributing something under two different licenses. If you only want to abide by the GPL you are free to. SUN will not accept the changes into their tree but they don't have to. It no longer belongs to Sun. It belongs to everyone.
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2005-07-08
Very well said. In addition to this and my argument below (Congrats to Sun for missing the point), it's worth clarifying that the GPLv3 is almost completely ineffective when combined with the CDDL. The latter is nearly always more permissive than the GPLv3, so the more restrictive parts of it can be legally side-stepped on the grounds that the CDDL grants a license to do what the GPLv3 prohibits. Essentially:
CDDL + GPLv3 == CDDL + under-informed fanboys