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Do you think it was by chance that CDDL is incompatible with GPL?
by mariuolo 10y ago
Do you think it was by chance that CDDL is incompatible with GPL?
- cm3 10y agoI don't know, but I remember reading from the involved Sun people that this wasn't the plan. Bonwick and Cantrill I believe. In the end what matters is the result more than your intention, when it comes to legalese. Sun could have gotten back to its former glory, but the lawyers somehow decided, maybe knowing they'd like to sell the company, that they needed a new license (CDDL). Or, you know, we're all just speculating and have no idea anyway. The end result for the wider tech ecosystem is painful. Had BTRFS been liberally licensed, it might be shared just as the graphics DRM bits are between Linux and the BSDs, and we would have a more mature BTRFS, maybe...