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Re:Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS? by cyphar on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:44PM (#11771114)
Actually, the CDDL allows the person who wrote the License (Sun, now Oracle) to release a new version of the license that implicitly updates the license for all projects using the old license (It's like the "or any later version" thing with the GPL, but I'm fairly sure it's not optional with CDDL). Which is why people are asking why Oracle doesn't just release CDDL 2.0 that is GPL compatible.
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Re:Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS? by ryao on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:55PM (#11771212)
New CDDL code outside of Oracle is under CDDLv1 only to prevent them from doing as they please with the license terms.
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Re:Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS? by cyphar on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:08PM (#11773893)
But ZFS is not under that other license (which might be called CDDLv1, but that's confusing). I don't get why new software uses the CDDL over the MPL if you want "file based copyleft". If you want copyleft, just use the GPL.
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Re:Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS? by ryao on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:01PM (#11779544)
Not much new software uses the CDDL. Fans of CDDL software typically opt for BSD or Apache licenses.
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