[osol-mktg] Re: Danese Cooper claims CDDL made incompatible with GPL on purpose

[Joerg Schilling]

Amey Abhyankar <abhyankar at osanswers.com> wrote:

> She use to visit India when we have "GNU nify" event in Pune city every year in Jan/Feb. It's a big event to unite Open mind's .

This is not the first time she spreads this lie.

I did have a long discussion with Andy Tucker (Solaris Chief engineer
at that time and responsible for the OpenSolaris project) in September
and I know that there never was such an intention.

Note that it is the GPL that causes the incompatibility and that
incompatibilities only hit you in case that you make bigger changes 
to CDDL code (making it a "derived work" from a GPL work) and then
mix the code to a single project, or if you let CDDLd code call GPLd code. 
If you let a GPLd project "just use" CDDLd code, there is no problem.

So the important message is: The fact that the GPL is incompatible
to the CDDL does not forbid any possible code combination. Just read the
GPL or ask a lawyer for possible combinations.



Jörg

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