“The Open Source Initiative has approved Sun Microsystems’ CDDL
(Common Development and Distribution License), paving the way for
the Santa Clara, Calif., company to proceed with its plan to
release its Solaris operating system as an open-source project.“But if Sun does use the CDDL for its Open Solaris project, as
is expected, one of this license’s benefits for developers and the
open-source community is that ‘with the CDDL, if you read it
carefully, Sun will convey all of its patents to the community, and
not just 500 like IBM recently did,’ a source close to the company
told eWEEK…”