Jan de Groot wrote: >It seems that GPL and CDDL have some conflicting paragraphs, so even if >CDDL allows linking to GPL with this exception, GPL doesn't allow the >other way around. I am not sure where you have this idea from.... The CDDL allows to combine CDDL code with other code and the GPL permits to link any GPLv2 program against any independent library under any license. Note that the GPL is an asymmetric license that disallows code based on GPLd software but if a program _uses_ a library, the library definitely is not based on the program code that just uses the library code. The common understanding of the laywers in Germany and the USA on what's happening when a program links against a library is that this creates a so called "collective work" which is not a derived work. The GPL definitely allows such collective works. See page 114 ff. in: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf Lawrence Rosen is the legal advisor of the OpenSource Initiative opensource.org. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (uni) joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
