[Discuss] Home NAS redux

Edward Ned Harvey (blu) blu at nedharvey.com
Mon Jan 7 16:00:05 EST 2013


> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:markw at mohawksoft.com]
> 
> >   Under CDDL, they don't have the same restriction - Some CDDL code can
> be built into a larger work, without placing a restriction on the licensing of the
> *other* source code.
> 
> That is the paradoxical part, people can take CDDL code and make it less
> free.

Read that again.  No, you can't take CDDL code and make it less free.  Yes you can take CDDL code, and build it into a binary that's also composed from non-CDDL code.  Unlike GPL.





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