Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest...
by jsiepkes on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:14AM
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> Solaris (now proprietary again and the forks of it aren't active I thought)
The Solaris forks (based on Illumos[1]) such as SmartOS[2] are pretty active!
> Are there other significant CDDL licensed codebases?
A lot of the Java stuff was also CDDL licensed. Though some of that (larger projects such as OpenJDK) were already dual licensed with "GPLv2 + classpath exception".
I also doubt it was used much outside of Sun. But even it's just the Sun stuff I still think no corporation would ever dare to make such a license update.
The Solaris forks (based on Illumos[1]) such as SmartOS[2] are pretty active!
> Are there other significant CDDL licensed codebases?
A lot of the Java stuff was also CDDL licensed. Though some of that (larger projects such as OpenJDK) were already dual licensed with "GPLv2 + classpath exception".
I also doubt it was used much outside of Sun. But even it's just the Sun stuff I still think no corporation would ever dare to make such a license update.
[1] https://www.illumos.org/ [2] https://wiki.smartos.org/