Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Dave Plater <dplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/01/2011 11:10 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Joerg.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
>
>   
> > 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
> >     
> I forgot to mention that I have a private mail from Eben Moglen that confirms 
> that the statement you quote is based on a wrong theory to explain why GPL 
> and 
> BSDl are compatible. Moglen promised me to ask Stallman to correct this false 
> claim but this was an effort to no avail.
>
> Jörg
>
>   
As I see it this is a case that has no resolution, we have the CDDL on
one side and the GPL on the other and the FSF in the middle and the
users are the ones who suffer. There can be no resolution without
compromise and compromise needs negotiation. I don't see any hope for
compromise just blame and it's blame that starts wars and a war is
something that causes suffering for the innocent. Generally the
uncompromising, if they survive the war end up as very lonely people.
End of story.
Dave Plater
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