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	Common Development and Distribution License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is an open source license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License, version 1.1.
		The CDDL was submitted for approval to the Open Source Initiative on December 1, 2004 and approved as an open source license in mid January 2005.
		Like the MPL from which it is derived, the license is not compatible with the GNU GPL.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CDDL (137 words)

	Face-off: GNU GPL versus Sun's new open source license (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The whole CDDL can be found on OpenSolaris.org, and it contains a zinger both Edgar Alan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been proud off: a missing component that hides in plain sight.
		The CDDL license does not call for user extensions to the Solaris code base to be made available to the larger community but may be held as proprietary intellectual property.
		This CDDL requirement reminds me of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) nuclear strategy that the US pursued during the Cold War, in which aggressors were motivated to avoid attacking by the knowledge that their societies would be destroyed in return.
	searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com /originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1067452,00.html (1414 words)

	Random Thoughts: The Linux jihad against SUN
		What CDDL provides is a sounder operational and legal framework to the use of opensource in corporate IT.
		The CDDL was based on the Mozilla Public License, with the exception that the phrase explicitly allowing integration into GPL'ed software was removed.
		It seems that the main purpose of CDDL is to be a license that is different from MPL/GPL, so that Linux cannot cherry pick from Solaris.
	sidart.blogspot.com /2005/01/linux-jihad-against-sun.html (1840 words)

	Computer Reseller News - For Providers of Information Technology Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The CDDL is widely expected to cover an open source version of Solaris, called Open Solaris, that the Santa Clara, Calif., company will detail at a news conference on January 25.
		CDDL is also more contributor-friendly than the GPL, and is shored up to prevent litigation issues, he added.
		CDDL shares some characteristics of the GPL in that all modifications to the source code must be made available and distributed under the same license, said Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst with the Burton Group.
	www.crn-india.com /news/stories/56719.html (829 words)

	Jim Driscoll's Blog: Newest Concern on Sun's Open Source Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		CDDL is an Open Source license, which means that you have unlimited right to redistribute, as long as you follow the simple rules regarding code availability.
		But the CDDL is no protection for the code that is contributed to a Sun project since the copyright is also ceded.
		Everyone else is effectively under the CDDL and must make their updates open, so no one else can take Suns changes and submarine the project for their own ends, but Sun can take contributors code and go on its merry way, with any advances never to be seen again.
	www.bbmao.com /collection/snap/111749011871426586563/IT/11218452179365895855 (8796 words)

	Andy Tucker's Weblog
		This is significant in contrast with licenses like the MPL and CPL, which allow the license steward to revise the license and automatically allow licensees to choose between the original license and the revised license, regardless of the wishes of the licensor or overall community.
		In addition, the CDDL allows the venue, jurisdiction, and choice of law to be configured by the licensor; this allows use by people and companies in different geographical areas.
		I also find it interesting that those deriding CDDL and Sun, and stating that Sun won't be able to attract a community to OpenSolaris because of the license choice, seem to be overlooking another prominent corporate-sponsored community with an MPL-flavored license: Eclipse.
	blogs.sun.com /tucker (3160 words)

	Libervis.com - Forums - General Forum - Would you approve Sun's CDDL as "open source"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As for CDDL, i am a bit suspicious about it if it's not GPL compatible as it may contain certain "restrictive" requirements that may contradict at least one of the freedoms we fight for.
		Well, CDDL is an open source license, but not free as in freedom license.
		CDDL is like: "You can have this free beer and you can replicate it in any replicator as many times as you like and you can share it.
	www.libervis.com /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=147 (2452 words)

	FAQ: CDDL at OpenSolaris.org
		CDDL is the Common Development and Distribution License.
		Yes, the CDDL meets the requirements of the Open Source Definition and has been approved as an open source license by the Open Source Initiative.
		CDDL is file-based; that means that files licensed under the CDDL can be combined with files licensed under other licenses, whether open source or proprietary.
	www.opensolaris.org /os/about/faq/licensing_faq (1365 words)

	The Blog of Ben Rockwood
		CDDL wasn't expressly "intended to be incompatible with the GPL", it was intended to guard some freedoms that the GPL doesn't provide.
		Sorry to rain on your parade, but CDDL provides a fair and level playing field for all sides involved, too bad if that means a rip-o-rama can't be put on the calander.
		The CDDL achieves what it was intended to do, and like the MPL offers a clear, file-based criterion for determining what is covered and what is not.
	www.cuddletech.com /blog/pivot/entry.php?id=56 (1038 words)

	Simon Phipps, SunMink
		In fact, patent grants and copyrights granted under CDDL are only lost if the license is terminated due to breach or assertion of patent infringement in Section 6 of CDDL. Steve was wrong, or at least misleading, in his comments.
		CDDL was designed from day one to be a possible solution to the problem of license proliferation, which is largely the result of corporate lawyers wanting to use the MPL for their software but being unable to do so because of issues with the license.
		The idea of the CDDL is to seed a patent portfolio for the code-base involved, and then ensure that as contributions are made over time each contributor also supplies the community with the patent rights necessary to defend their work.
	blogs.sun.com /roller/page/webmink/20050308 (3423 words)

	Jim Driscoll's Blog: What is this CDDL thing, anyway?
		The CDDL License has been talked about quite a bit since Sun submitted it to the OSI (the independant body that validates Open Source licenses).
		Well, there were quite a few good reasons, but two of the bigger ones were that we liked the copyleft provisions, and that we thought that the OSI had a point about license proliferation.
		CDDL is a copyleft license - you are requrired to show the modifications you made to the source under CDDL, though it's not viral like the GPL.
	weblogs.java.net /blog/driscoll/archive/2005/06/what_is_this_cd_1.html (831 words)

	Linus Torvalds comments on Sun's CDDL license - OSNews.com
		Namely, the CDDL ensures that you are granted a patent license if applicable with the copyright license.
		I could very easily take all their CDDL licenced code and start a project with a licence that was GPL-like as long as that licence included a patent grant and stuff.
		The CDDL is as open-source as the LGPL or the MPL - no one is saying that Mozilla is creating a one-way street with their license.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=9074 (1971 words)

	OpenSource World. Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		What Sutor is referring to is that, apart from certain academic open source licenses such as the BSD and MIT licenses, most open source licenses, including both the GPL and CDDL, have reciprocal provisions in them that require derivative open source software to bear the same license as the code from which it was derived.
		CDDL or unlicensed code that's ready to take on the CDDL license can get it in, but nothing gets out.
		The CDDL license can be applied to a particular implementation of a patent (to the extent that the patent can be implemented in software).
	opensource-forum.ru /press_v.php?id=3 (1837 words)

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		Sun's CDDL description addressed the difficulties of intermingling software covered by the CDDL with software covered by the General Public License, or GPL--the license that governs Linux.
		However, Sun didn't start from scratch: The CDDL is a variant of the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the license that governs the Web browser project that helped bring the open-source movement to prominence in 1998.
		Sun, though, believes its license is an improvement over existing open-source licenses: "We wished to create a license that was simpler, less burdensome for contributors, clear and consistent in the use of terms and language, and that was as reusable and general as possible," Sun said in a description of the license.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9031663&postID=110231919422681223 (850 words)

	Sound advice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A further 28th of January article highlights another possible technical issue with the CDDL arrangment, but expects the problem will be solved when the Contributors Agreement is drawn up.
		The CDDL is almost certainly better from pretty much every point of view (including that of the DFSG) than the current licences for Solaris.
		As for the free software world's general acceptance of and participation in the CDDL, it is probably no worse than the Mozilla Public Licenese or any number of other licenses that have appeared over time and been declared open source.
	members.optusnet.com.au /benjamincarlyle/benjamin/blog/2005/02/04 (1585 words)

	Claire's Alternate Version of Reality
		I led the team that created the CDDL open source license and am simultaneously flattered by all the attention and shocked at some of the ludicrous things that I've read.
		The MPL class of open source license (on which CDDL is based) had a number of attractions.
		Your CDDL was just a means to prevent people from taking your code and using it elsewhere, keeping all the work in your project.
	blog.sun.com /roller/page/cmh?anchor=cddl_is_it_so_bad (3126 words)

	Jim Driscoll's Blog: One more time: CDDL is Open Source
		The CDDL is a derivative of the Mozilla Public License.
		But there is one dark side, not to the CDDL, but to Suns projects that it is licensing under CDDL (notably OpenSolaris, and GlassFish).
		I cannot in good faith, for my own sake, contribute something under the cddl knowing that later, when working with gpl, I won't be able to link and make use of the code I WROTE in cddl.
	weblogs.java.net /blog/driscoll/archive/2005/07/one_more_time_c.html (1945 words)

	Rich Teer's Blog: Linux Magazine's CDDL article: a rebuttal
		The CDDL explicitly allows code available under other licenses to be mixed with CDDL code, provided the language of the other license allows it.
		One wonders if Mozilla, which is distributed under the MPL that CDDL is based on, suffered such harsh words when it was released...
		CDDL licensed code can quite easily be mixed with non-CDDL code, provided that the other code's license allows it.
	richteer.blogspot.com /2005/02/linux-magazines-cddl-article-rebuttal.html (1795 words)

	Breaking News--Sun Starts to Roll Out OpenSolaris
		Sun submitted the CDDL to OSI in December 2004, and the OSI board approved the license on January 14.
		The CDDL is based heavily on the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1, but it includes some things that other open source licenses do not.
		The CDDL also has provisions that allow the full weight of the Solaris patent portfolio to stand behind the OpenSolaris community--a kind of provision that is lacking in Linux because it has not been patented and cross-licensed to death like Unix was for two decades.
	www.itjungle.com /breaking/bn012405-story02.html (922 words)

	Feathers, Rangers, and Ivory Towers
		CDDL isn't that wonderful from this side of the fence, either.
		My first problem with the CDDL is that it enforces derivative works of a CDDL file to go back to Sun.
		I'm also willing to bet that Sun themselves won't honor the CDDL on the source either: they will use their position as copyright holder to 'close source' their Solaris modifications.
	weblog.erenkrantz.com /weblog/software/solaris/cddl-thoughts.html (351 words)

	Sun Grants OSS Community Access to More than 1,600 Patents - OSNews.com
		Yes CDDL might be an open-sourced approved license but Sun removed option 13 from the MPL, which is the license from which they derived their own.
		And as such, the CDDL doesn't seem to be compatible with the BSD license as it enforces releasing of the source code (CDDL#3.1).
		To release Solaris under the CDDL Sun was required to grant the patents they've obtained for Solaris.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=9524&limit=no (8208 words)

	LinuxLinks News
		Sun's CDDL license authorized for use, now it's up to Sun to "open source" Solaris.
		The Open Source Initiative has approved Sun Microsystems' CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), paving the way for the Santa Clara, Calif., company to proceed with its plan to release its Solaris operating system as an open-source project.
		CDDL is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, since it contains
	www.linuxlinks.com /portal/news/article.php?story=20050119185639940 (413 words)

	Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative - ZDNet UK News
		However, Sun didn't start from scratch: The CDDL is a variant of the Mozilla Public licence 1.1, the licence that governs the Web browser project that helped bring the open-source movement to prominence in 1998.
		Licences can be filled with obtuse legal jargon, and at 2,744 words long, the CDDL isn't a light read for programmers thinking of throwing their hat into the ring.
		Sun, though, believes its licence is an improvement over existing open-source licences: "We wished to create a licence that was simpler, less burdensome for contributors, clear and consistent in the use of terms and language, and that was as reusable and general as possible," Sun said in a description of the licence.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175796,00.htm (931 words)

	license-discuss@opensource.org: 9125: For Approval: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
		This means that (for example) files licensed under the CDDL can be linked together with files licensed under the MPL, SPL, CPL (or other licenses that allow files under different licenses to be linked together) as well as with code released under "academic" licenses such as BSD, AFL, Apache, and X11.
		In addition, source code licensed under the CDDL can be combined in the same file with code licensed under an academic license, as long as the resulting source file is distributed under the CDDL.
		Like the MPL, the CDDL is not expected to be compatible with the GPL, since it contains requirements that are not in the GPL (for example, the "patent peace" provision in section 6).
	www.crynwr.com /cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:9125:200412:dmcacncfamieofeochbn (1965 words)

	Linux News: Commentary : OpenSolaris: Beyond the Rhetoric
		The IBM patent pledge is problem-free, as I wrote in an earlier column; however, Ravicher has a point that there's a gap between Sun's press release and the legal documents releasing the Sun patents.
		The CDDL is a non-copyleft license, which means that it is possible to use the OpenSolaris source and create proprietary modifications.
		Reading the CDDL, the patent grant in Section 2.1(b) along with the definition of "Original Software" (Section 1.10) suggests that the patent grant is only for software licensed under the CDDL.
	www.linuxinsider.com /story/40176.html (1409 words)

	Cover Pages: Sun Releases Solaris Operating System and 1600 Patents under CDDL Open Source License.
		The newly approved CDDL is file-based, which means that "files licensed under the CDDL can be combined with files licensed under other licenses, whether open source or proprietary.
		But if Sun does use the CDDL for its Open Solaris project, as is expected, one of this license's benefits for developers and the open-source community is that 'with the CDDL, if you read it carefully, Sun will convey all of its patents to the community, and not just 500 like IBM recently did'...
		The new Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) license was approved by by Open Source Initiative's board of directors on January 14, 2005.
	xml.coverpages.org /ni2005-01-27-a.html (2997 words)

	Sun Announces Open Source License for Solaris(TM) Operating System
		The CDDL, which was approved by the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) board of directors on January 14, is based on the well-regarded Mozilla(TM) Public License (MPL).
		The CDDL was also created to be a reusable license that would be attractive to other open source efforts, so that other projects with similar community and licensing goals would not need to create a new license.
		They did their homework, were careful in all the details and they privately previewed the license with influential members of the license committee," said Russ Nelson, vice president, OSI.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-25-2005/0002902260&EDATE= (721 words)

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