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	Common Development and Distribution License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is an open source and Free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL), 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.
		As the CDDL is derived from the MPL, some people claim that the license is not compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License (429 words)

	Berkeley Software Distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This can be attributed to the ease with which it could be licensed and the familiarity it found among the founders of many technology companies during the 1980s.
		Source code licenses had become very expensive by this point, and several outside parties had expressed interest in a separate release of the networking code, which had been developed entirely outside ATandT and would not be subject to the licensing requirement.
		The lawsuit slowed development of the free-software descendants of BSD for nearly two years while their legal status was in question, and as a result systems based on the Linux kernel, which did not have such legal ambiguity, gained greater support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution (2423 words)

	Mozilla Public License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation.
		The MPL has been adapted by others as a license for their software, most notably Sun Microsystems, as the Common Development and Distribution License for OpenSolaris (the open source version of Solaris 10).
		The license is regarded as a weak copyleft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mozilla_Public_License (466 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
		Licensable means having the right to grant, to the maximum extent possible, whether at the time of the initial grant or subsequently acquired, any and all of the rights conveyed herein.
		Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the jurisdiction and venue specified in a notice contained within the Original Software, with the losing party responsible for costs, including, without limitation, court costs and reasonable attorneys fees and expenses.
		As between Initial Developer and the Contributors, each party is responsible for claims and damages arising, directly or indirectly, out of its utilization of rights under this License and You agree to work with Initial Developer and Contributors to distribute such responsibility on an equitable basis.
	www.opensource.org /licenses/cddl1.php (1988 words)

	Open Media Commons - FAQ: Common Development and Distribution License
		Therefore, we reluctantly drafted a new license, with the goal of creating a license that was clear, consistent, not burdensome for contributors, and as reusable and general as possible (the same issues we are concerned about for Open Media Commons).
		The license also includes a provision to discourage patent litigation against developers, by revoking the rights to the code for anyone initiating a patent claim against a developer regarding code they have contributed.
		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.openmediacommons.org /CDDL_FAQs.html (1335 words)

	NetBeans User FAQs : Licence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NetBeans is released under the Common Development and Distribution License.
		The license, called the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), is functionally equivalent to the MPL, but is a template license (meaning many projects can reuse it without needing to change its text), has fewer requirements regarding notices in source code.
		Code licensed under the GPL is not acceptable because the GPL restricts distribution of code licensed under the CDDL.
	www.netbeans.org /kb/faqs/licence.html (1767 words)

	Cover Pages: Sun Releases Solaris Operating System and 1600 Patents under CDDL Open Source License.
		By giving open source developers free access to Sun OpenSolaris related patents under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), the company is fostering open innovation and establishing a leadership role in the framework of a patent commons that will be recognized across the globe.
		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_Microsystems
		Its founders were Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy (a primary developer of BSD Unix), and Andy Bechtolsheim; McNealy and Bechtolsheim remain at Sun.
		In 2004, in common with the trend of specialisation in the electronics industry, Sun cancelled two major processor projects which were emphasizing high instruction level parallelism and high operating frequency.
		The Java platform, developed at Sun in the early 1990s, was developed with the objective of allowing programs to function regardless of the device they were used on, sparking the slogan "Write once, run everywhere".
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/su/sun_microsystems.html (2563 words)

	License
		The NetBeans source code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), an OSI-approved license that meets the requirements of the Open Source Definition.
		Both the CDDL and the earlier SPL are based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL); CDDL is a more reusable license, and was written to be more readable.
		The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (the License).
	www.netbeans.org /about/legal/license.html (305 words)

	Sun's new license / Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The CDDL is similar to the MPL and its derivative licenses (CPL, SPL, etc.) in terms of combination with software distributed under other licenses.
		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.
		Sun has a new license, The CDDL is similar to the MPL and its derivative licenses (CPL, SPL, etc.) in terms of combination with software distributed under other licenses.
	myvie.ws /item/67 (337 words)

	Carla Mott's Blog: GlassFish distribution license - clarified
		The majority of the GlassFish code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) v1.0 and that applies to source code as well as the binary format.
		As far as I understand some components like JavaMail and Activation are released under CDDL for the sources and Sun binary License for the binaries, which means I can't redistribute the jar provided by Sun while I can redistribute the sources, and build a jar myself and redistribute it.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	weblogs.java.net /blog/carlavmott/archive/2006/04/glassfish_is_di.html (752 words)

	Open Media Commons - Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
		(c) The licenses granted in Sections 2.1(a) and (b) are effective on the date Initial Developer first distributes or otherwise makes the Original Software available to a third party under the terms of this License.
		The Open Media Commons projects code released under the CDDL shall be governed by the laws of the State of California (excluding conflict-of-law provisions).
		Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts of the Northern District of California and the state courts of the State of California, with venue lying in Santa Clara County, California.
	www.openmediacommons.org /CDDL_License.html (1992 words)

	Harald Hoyer » cdrtools and CDDL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Common rumor is that only the build system is CDDL licensed.
		The software in this directory tree is free software and uses licenses that are aproved be the OpenSource Initative http://www.opensource.org/ Not all sub-projects use the same license.
		Seems like this is mixed GPL and CDDL code, which is IMHO not allowed by §2 of the GPL.
	www.harald-hoyer.de /2006/08/21/83 (184 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - The BSD License:Licensing
		To generate your own license, change the values of OWNER, ORGANIZATION and YEAR from their original values as given here, and substitute your own.
		Note: The advertising clause in the license appearing on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the University of California on July 22 1999.
		MIT License, except for the no-endorsement final clause.
	www.opensource.org /licenses/bsd-license.php (331 words)

	Sun Submits New Open License
		Russ Castronovo, Sun spokesman, said the CDDL simplifies what actions need to be notified and removes some restrictions that were specific to California State law, but he declined to comment on what products would benefit from the CDDL.
		Among the major shifts between the Mozilla license and Sun's new CDDL is adding an option to make covered software available under a specific version of the license, rather than allowing the use of future license versions.
		The CDDL also clarifies the definition of "modifications" to make it easier for readers to understand what is covered by the license and what is not.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3444261 (742 words)

	Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier \| CNET News.com
		Sidestepping existing open-source licenses, such as the GPL that governs the heart of Linux, Sun has proposed a new type of license that could cover its open-source release of Solaris.
		But the proposed license could hamper cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux and, as one commentator has it, add to a list of licenses that create "lots of little lumps of software that can't be combined." Sun, however, calls its license "less burdensome" and seems ready to sacrifice any benefits of Linux intermingling.
		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.
	news.com.com /...+mean+Solaris-Linux+barrier/2100-7344_3-5475182.html (908 words)

	Sun submits mystery license to open source group \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2004-12-03 \| By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
		If the license is adopted for Solaris, it will prevent Sun's operating system from being able to use the many free device drivers that have already been written for Linux and licensed under the GPL, he said.
		Sun's new license is very similar to the Mozilla Public License, created by Netscape Communications for its open-source browser project, but it removes a number of idiosyncrasies in the license, including a requirement that the license be governed by California law, Castronovo said.
		In addition to leaving the licensing question unanswered, the Santa Clara computer company has not said exactly what parts of Solaris will be released or how the open source code will be managed.
	www.infoworld.com /article/04/12/03/HNsunopensourcelicense_1.html (1117 words)

	TWiki . Netbeans . SunPublicLicense
		The whole NetBeans codebase is available unter the Common Development Distribution License.
		The CDDL is a variant of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and is compliant with the Open Source Definition.
		Versions of NetBeans prior to 5.5 were licensed under the very similar Sun Public License.
	wiki.java.net /bin/view/Netbeans/SunPublicLicense (113 words)

	Re: License of Solaris 10: Common Development and Distribution License (draft?)
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		License of Solaris 10: Common Development and Distribution License(draft?)
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	lists.debian.org /debian-legal/2004/12/msg00004.html (178 words)

	LWN: The Common Development and Distribution License
		This license, derived from the Mozilla Public License, may (or may not) be what Sun chooses to use for its possible open-source Solaris release, so it is worth a look.
		The license says nothing about how the source must be made available; in theory, one could satisfy the license by requiring people to pick up the source in person at one's Mongolian software distribution center.
		Interestingly, the license allows the binaries themselves to be distributed under any license, so long as (1) the source is available under the CDDL, and (2) the person distributing binaries under a different license indemnifies the copyright holders for any liabilities.
	lwn.net /Articles/114839 (1200 words)

	freshmeat.net: Frequently Asked Questions
		This software may be used free-of-charge, but is restricted in some way (often in comparison to a commercial version of the same software).
		This software may be distributed freely, but restrictions have been placed on your right to modify it, etc. Please see the author(s) for details.
		Please see the author(s) for details about its license and what you are permitted to do with its source code.
	freshmeat.net /faq/view/48 (227 words)

	LWN: The Common Development and Distribution License
		The unmodifiable part of the GPL is the preamble, which is not technically a term of the license; one can make a license equivalent to the GPL in its terms (and so compatible with the GPL), but use only free license text.
		Sun's license allows modifications only if the modified license has a new name and no references to Sun (other than a notice that the new licence differs from the CDDL).
		The GPL text itself can't be changed, but a derived license can be created by including the GPL file in a distribution, and then saying that the license that applies to the work is the GPL together with a set of modifications.
	lwn.net /Articles/114878 (357 words)

	Portlets Repository
		All the "portlets" developed by Jahia Solutions are available under the CDDL open source license.
		Disclaimer: This portlet is free of charge and delivered on an 'as-is' basis (under the CDDL open source license terms and conditions).
		E-mail checking is probably the most common and frequent activity done by every person on his/her computer, on a daily basis.
	www.jahia.net /jahia/571 (1867 words)

	"Open" Solaris not open enough, watchers say
		In today's article, entitled, "Sun thumbs nose at the GPL," Vaughan-Nichols explains why, as a derivative of the Mozilla Public License, the CDDL is not compatible with the GPL, and why incompatibility with the GPL would limit the popularity of Open Solaris.
		Vaughan-Nichols quotes Linus Torvalds likening the license to "a moat against the barbarians at the gate," and quotes an executive at competitor HP comparing Sun's move to a woman announcing she's half-pregnant.
		Then, in December, the company submitted the CDDL to the OSI for consideration, saying that none of the 50 existing open source licenses suited its purposes.
	www.linuxdevices.com /news/NS9832005835.html (483 words)

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