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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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:
> 
> 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

Yeah, this is the CDDL with the modular choice-of-venue and choice-of-law.

Friendly,

Sven Luther