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



On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:53:12PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> On Thursday 08 September 2005 16:21, Sven Luther wrote:
> --cut--
> > 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:

Which constitutes a trademark violation at the very least (it's not
the CDDL any more) and quite probably a copyright one (the CDDL isn't
modifiable).

Yeesh.

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