On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 18:22 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 00:10 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > Another license mess. Is CDDL by itself acceptable to Fedora at all? > > Interestingly, I found in Google a story Rahul himself submitted to > OSnews back in 2004 regarding CDDL. :-) In any case CDDL is OSI > approved, but that doesn't address the real question, I guess, which is > whether mkisofs is violating the terms of either the CDDL or the GPL by > combining code licensed under one or the other in a larger work. > > I have no idea whether the mkisofs authors have modified any of the > CDDL-licensed code. If someone can analyze these issues -- at least > from the code perspective -- and present this as a fully-formed > question, maybe we can get a good legal opinion. Until someone does a > little research and present details, I doubt that would happen. LWN has a good article on this issue for those that are subscribers. http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
