Re: choice

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

> > The CDDL is a free software license that gives more freedom than the GPL does 
> > and it is definitely accepted even by Debian. 

> It's accepted by Debian? I've never seen any consensus that it's 

Of yourse it is and if you really care, you of course have no problem to find 
the related mails in the net!

> DFSG-free, and it's certainly not GPL-compatible, since AIUI it includes 
> restrictions that the GPL doesn't (or at least the GPLv2, I don't know 
> about v3). And AFAIK there are no CDDL packages in Debian ATM. What 
> makes you say that it's "definitely accepted"? 

Try to inform yourself from serious sources...


The CDDL does not restrict the code, the GPL hovever has some restrictions
that prevent you from using GPLd code from within CDDLd (or any other license)
projects. As the GPL is an asymmetric license, it allows to use CDDLd code 
to be used inside GPLd projects!

When people write that CDDL & GPL are incompatible they mean that they are not 
_fully_ compatiple because of restrictions in the GPL.

Not fully compatible means: you need to check your specific case to find out 
whether it is possible or not. 

Jörg

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