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I have heard arguments that Oracle would now be the License Steward and could change it to be whatever they liked (GPL 2.0, MIT, etc.) which would flow to the O
by doublepg23 5y ago
I have heard arguments that Oracle would now be the License Steward and could change it to be whatever they liked (GPL 2.0, MIT, etc.) which would flow to the OpenZFS project.
See section 4: https://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0
- p_l 5y agoOracle can create CDDL-1.1 or any other newer version with different terms, but there's no "CDDL 1.0 or newer" license on OpenZFS, nor is Oracle sole copyright holder. Another issue is that what is specifically a problem with GPLv2 is that CDDL-1.0 provides patent litigation indemnity, losing which would be a big problem.
- pmarreck 5y agoSo this means any software licensed with CDDL couldn't be sued for loss of business if there was a technical glitch, or? I mean, with an open source license, who could get sued, anyway? The current steward of the main repo?
- p_l 5y agoPretty much every license it there disclaims any responsibility. CDDL has provisions that mean that Oracle can't sue you for (hypothetical) patent infringement in ZFS code because Sun gave automatic license to those patents when it released code under CDDL