Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 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).
Since the star upstream author is deeply involved with sun and the whole
opensolaris guys, and he told me on the opensolaris list that he did ask for a
modular choice-of-venue thingy and that none of the opensolaris guys from sun
told him differently, i clearly doubt there is any such problem :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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