On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:40:34AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > Frank Küster writes: > > > Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote: > > > >> Andrew Suffield writes: > >> > >>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > >>>> CDDL works similar way, except on per-file basis. > >>> > >>> This is incomprehensible gibberish. > >> > >> This is unsupportable hyperbole. Erast's statement may be inapt, > >> wrong, misleading, or have any number of other flaws, but it is > >> neither incomprehensible nor gibberish. > > > > I do not comprehend what he means with "CDDL works on a per-file basis, > > GPL does not". One can of course create a project made up of GPL'ed > > source files and other source files with different, GPL-compatible > > licenses. > > The CDDL (based as it is on the MPL) allows you to mix CDDL-licensed > files in a project with files under CDDL-incompatible licenses and > distribute the resulting executable. The GPL applies to the work as a > whole. The relevant sections of the GPL are below; this trait is why > people say that, even though CDDL is a copyleft license, it allows > developers to create proprietary applications on top of the CDDL base. Sorry, but the relevant sections below do not belong to the GPL, but to the CDDL. > > 1.3. "Covered Software" means (a) the Original Software, or (b) > Modifications, or (c) the combination of files containing Original > Software with files containing Modifications, in each case > including portions thereof. > > 1.9. "Modifications means the Source Code and Executable form of any > of the following: > A. Any file that results from an addition to, deletion from or > modification of the contents of a file containing Original > Software or previous Modifications; > B. Any new file that contains any part of the Original Software or > previous Modification; or > C. Any new file that is contributed or otherwise made available > under the terms of this License. > > 1.12. "Source Code" means (a) the common form of computer software > code in which modifications are made and (b) associated > documentation included in or with such code. > > 3.1. Availability of Source Code. > Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make > available in Executable form must also be made available in Source > Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under > the terms of this License. You must include a copy of this License > with every copy of the Source Code form of the Covered Software > You distribute or otherwise make available. You must inform > recipients of any such Covered Software in Executable form as to > how they can obtain such Covered Software in Source Code form in a > reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily used for > software exchange. > > Does this help? > > Michael Poole > Thadeu Cascardo --
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