Didn't know about the SPL thing; interesting. So what's Ubuntu doing, just dealing with packaging it on their end? > betting that nobody who will own copyright

Didn't know about the SPL thing; interesting. So what's Ubuntu doing, just dealing with packaging it on their end? > betting that nobody who will own copyright to code in the CDDL is going to sue anytime in the next 80ish years would be dumb even ignoring the fact that Oracle owns copyright to at least some of that code right now, and they are quite litigious. When I wrote this, I was under the impression that US law more or less required copyrights to be regularly defended in order to maintain any "legal weight", but on Googling, it seems that while the awards in a case where a copyright was undefended until some significant time had passed, were lesser, it was still quite defensible. So I guess, fuck, that kind of sucks in a way, because it incentivizes patent trolling/hoarding/squatting, but it also makes it possible for someone without significant financial backing to benefit from a patent without having to afford good and regular legal defense. That's one hell of a damn tradeoff. A possibly better system would perhaps be one similar to what happens in the music biz in which a company takes a cut of any wins or profits by providing someone substantial legal representation in the defense of their copyrighted works.