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Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...



On Thursday 08 September 2005 16:21, Sven Luther wrote:
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> Yeah, well, i did an apt-get install star and looked at the copyright file,
> so i am not sure what facts i have to believe then.
>
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/star/star_1.4a17-3/star
> >.copyright
> >
> > Took about ten seconds to find out it was GPL before upstream relicensed
> > and debian maint just copied that.
>
> Ah, ok, nice to know.

Note that the latest upstream development version is star-1.5a67.tar.gz [1] 
and is CDDL licensed with the following slight modifications:

diff -Naur CDDL.Sun.txt CDDL.Schily.txt
--- CDDL.Sun.txt        2005-02-09 07:36:33.000000000 +0200
+++ CDDL.Schily.txt     2005-02-10 01:41:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -368,10 +368,9 @@
 DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL)

 For Covered Software in this distribution, this License shall
-be governed by the laws of the State of California (excluding
-conflict-of-law provisions).
+be governed by the laws of Germany (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.
+jurisdiction and the courts of Berlin Germany, with venue lying
+in Berlin Germany.

[1] http://sourcewell.berlios.de/appbyid.php?id=1036

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