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As I understand it, the license incompability between GPL and CDDL is that CDDL adds a restriction regarding patents, and GPL does not allow for additional rest
by gribbly 9y ago
As I understand it, the license incompability between GPL and CDDL is that CDDL adds a restriction regarding patents, and GPL does not allow for additional restrictions to be added.
So to distribute CDDL licensed code is a breach of BOTH licenses as I see it, ignoring the 'patent peace' requirement of CDDL which would be the case if distributing it as GPL does not sound legal to me (IANAL).
I can certainly understand why Linus has stated that no CDDL code will be mainlined (brought into the Linux kernel tree), it all seems very ambiguous.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoIANAL, but it (probably) depends on which license Canonical is using for the ZFS plugin. If they use CDDL, then I can't see how Oracle would have a case.
- fnj 9y agoThey can't legally use anything except CDDL. If anyone could just pick and choose to alter the licensing, there wouldn't be any point in having licences.