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Re: JavaMail and JAF



Timo Juhani Lindfors writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > It certainly doesn't appear on the FSF list of free licences.  It is,
 > 
 > Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free:
 > 
 > $ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html | grep -A 5 "(CDDL)"
 >    [101]Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
 >           This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft;
 >           it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with
 >           the [102]GNU GPL. It requires that all attribution notices be
 >           maintained, while the GPL only requires certain types of
 >           notices. Also, it terminates in retaliation for certain

You're right, it is there.  I missed it.

Andrew.



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