![]() You were there too? Ah, you were that guy in the back playing snake on his Nokia, and not paying much attention to anything, right? I do not know if Larry needs a bigger yacht than Jeff but I see no reason to risk contributing to one. ![]() My personal interpretation of their decision to keep things vague is they want people to create derivative works without giving permission so that if there is ever enough money involved they can sue. Oracle could make things clear by either releasing their code under GPL or stating clearly that their code is not to be mixed with GPL code. I do not want to have that argument in court with Oracle's lawyers. That by itself is sufficient for me to avoid a mixed work. As far as I can make out, some people who are not the deciding authority say that mixing CDDL and GPL does not violate CDDL but people who really should know what they are talking about say that mixing CDDL and GPL violates GPL. Over the years it has become clear that different people in Sun had different intentions. ![]() Back when Sun was choosing a license they deliberately chose to base CDDL on a license with GPL incompatibility. CDDL contains a patent license that Oracle can void with a small amount of effort. Firstly it is about "will I get sued" and if the answer to that is a definite no then it is about the copyright holder's intent. It is not about extremism, purity or absolutism. ![]()
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