Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval
News In December, Sun submitted its Community Development and Distribution License, or CDDL, for approval by the Open Source Initiative, the nonprofit group that decides whether software licence agreements meet the terms of its Open Source Definition.
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Sun may choose GPL for Solaris
News The server and software company previously made Solaris an open-source project called OpenSolaris in 2005, releasing source code under the Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL). At the time, that made it appear likely that Sun would...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
Schwartz swipes at the GPL
News Naturally, Schwartz presented an alternative, Sun's CDDL, an open source licence that's a variant of the earlier MPL. Sun has begun releasing its Solaris source code under the CDDL in a project called OpenSolaris.
[April 6, 2005, 13:50]
Sun drops hints on Java open source licence
News Solaris is governed by the CDDL, which is derived from the Mozilla Public License and officially blessed as an open source licence by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). However, use of CDDL is not a surprise: Sun has lobbied hard to convince the...
[October 27, 2006, 9:10]
Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative
News Thus, it is likely that files released under the CDDL will not be able to be combined with files released under the GPL to create a larger program. But if Sun chooses to release Solaris under the CDDL -- and it hasn't committed to doing so -- the...
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Limitations take the shine off open Sun
Leader In particular, the Community Development and Distribution License under which the software is published is not compatible with the GPL -- you can't mix code between the two licences -- nor do GPL developers get the unfettered patent use that is...
[June 14, 2005, 15:00]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News The CDDL governs OpenSolaris and the Glassfish Java server software project. In particular, he's called on Sun in an August speech to scrap the CDDL. Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Solaris code due today
News We are going to be doing OpenSolaris under the CDDL, and as a sign of how serious we are, we packaged up DTrace source code and made that available under the CDDL," Goguen said. Sun will begin releasing its Solaris operating system as open source...
[January 25, 2005, 8:00]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
News The CDDL, like the GPL, lets anyone change software but requires that those changes be publicly released. Unlike the GPL, though, the CDDL permits a tight coupling between its open source components and other proprietary components.
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
News The open source Solaris project began with a Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), and open source Java employs version 2 of the General Public License (GPL). And he's not concerned with a repeat of the criticisms aimed at Sun when...
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
Java released under the GPL
News Sun's server-side Java Platform Enterprise Edition software is already open sourced under the CDDL, through the GlassFish project. Sun's own Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) was another option.
[November 13, 2006, 8:03]
OSI targets licence cull
News Greenblatt added that elements of other licences, such as Sun's CDDL, could be used to form the short list of open source licences. The Open Source Initiative is devising ways to cut down the rising number of open source licences, as the issue of...
[February 18, 2005, 10:25]
Motorola chooses home for its open-source Java
News Motorola chose the Apache License, but last week, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said his company is likely to use the Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) for open-source Java.
[November 2, 2006, 10:16]
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News Sun's CDDL is a great starting point in stopping proliferation," Greenblatt said. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has begun an effort to pare down the number of open source licences in widespread use.
[April 7, 2005, 9:20]
Solaris licence gets OSI approval
News In late December, the committee recommended that Sun's Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) be granted official status as an open source licence, Chairman Russell Nelson said in an email posting.
[January 5, 2005, 11:35]
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
News One of the things that Sun has done with OpenSolaris, for example, has been to put in place an open standards approved open-source licence model — the CDDL [Common Development and Distribution License] — that provides indemnification to the users...
[July 24, 2007, 9:24]
Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform
News Sun distributions of the new web platform will be available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the Liferay distributions will be available under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) licence.
[May 8, 2008, 9:27]
Red Hat predicts death of Solaris
News The company also released information to the effect that it intends to show its good faith to the community by open sourcing the bulk of Solaris 10 under its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is understood to be directly...
[February 16, 2005, 8:50]
