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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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