Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling)]

Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well this comes from
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
> Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0
>
> This is a free software license. It has a copyleft with a scope that's
> similar to the one in the Mozilla Public License, which makes it
> incompatible with the GNU GPL. This means a module covered by the GPL
> and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We
> urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason.
>
> Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term ?intellectual property?.
> What is your opinion?

We need top call this FUD as:

-       it is trying to down the CDDL

-       it is a completeny unconfirmed and unproven claim

-       it is in conflict to what any lawyer did say so far about this issue

-       it is in conflict to other claims from the FSF

Jörg

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