Groklaw: Patent Questions About the CDDL

“When I wrote about Sun’s announcement about Open Solaris, I
said that I wouldn’t explain one issue I saw with the new license,
the CDDL, because the Contributors’ Agreement wasn’t complete, and
until I saw it I wouldn’t know if an issue I had with the license
was resolved or not.

“I have just learned that Sun will not have the Contributors’
Agreement finished for weeks, perhaps months. I thought we’d have
the document in a matter of days. Because none of us can know our
future for sure, and we never know when we’ll be hit by a truck or
a tsunami or something, I feel I need to explain the hole to you
now, so you can sensibly decide if you wish to accept the terms of
the license or if you prefer to wait until Sun makes whatever
adjustments it decides to make in order to address the
issue…”

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