On: Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual...

[bsder]

It is not nonsense, and Sun went out of its way to make sure that the CDDL and GPL are incompatible.

So, all the ZFS on Linux users are okay until Oracle sees money in suing them.

[chriswarbo → bsder]

The link above seems to say that that the GPLv3 is compatible.

Linux won't(/can't) be changing from GPLv2 any time soon though. I don't know about Sun's intentions.

[l1ambda → bsder]

> Sun went out of its way to make sure that the CDDL and GPL are incompatible.

What evidence is there of this?

[wmf → l1ambda]

Sun could have written the CDDL to be GPL-compatible yet they chose not to and they generally refused to explain why. I suspect that they did not want to see OpenSolaris become an "organ donor" for Linux but they also didn't want to appear weak by saying so in public.

The closest I can find is where Simon Phipps said "to be GPL compatible you actually have to be willing to have your license discarded and replaced with the GPL. It's more a Borg-like assimilation than compatibility, in my view, and pretty undesirable as it results in future code enrichment being accumulated in some other code commons." https://web.archive.org/web/20050420234857/http://blogs.sun....