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The licensing incompatibility is not arising from the CDDL licence, but the GPL. You can combine the CDDL with pretty much anything. As a result, it would be
by rleigh 6y ago
The licensing incompatibility is not arising from the CDDL licence, but the GPL. You can combine the CDDL with pretty much anything.
As a result, it would be extraordinarily difficult for Oracle to sue since it would not be the CDDL licence terms which were infringed.
- hnlmorg 6y agoThis was my takeaway as well. Which is why I was puzzled by the comments about Oracle suing Canonical. That said, boomboomsubban (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24331590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24331590) suggested Oracle could sue on the GPL side of things since they have committed code to Linux. It would be interesting if such a position is possible and I suspect that could open the door to all sorts of frivolousness cases (eg closed binaries shipped with Android).