[Building Sakai] CDDL & Sakai

[Michael Feldstein]

Fair enough. 

Since the Board made the ruling on the last licensing issue (which involved the FOSS exception in a GPL license, I believe), I assume that this would go up to the Board again. Personally, I would want to know what the CDDL-licensed component is being used for and how likely it is that developers would ever have to look at its internals. I believe these have been factors in past decisions regarding LGPL. 

- m 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois Leveque [mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr] 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:43 AM
To: sakai-dev sakai-dev
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] CDDL & Sakai

While not all contrib code may aspire to be in core, it would be better to know if there's a problem with the license before starting to use external code in a contrib tool, instead of learning too late and having to rewrite to be included in core.

- j-f

Michael Feldstein a écrit :
> Do you aspire to have the code included in Sakai core? If not, then I 
> don't think the licensing will matter. My understanding (and I hope 
> somebody will correct me if I'm wrong) is that CDDL is fairly similar 
> to LGPL. There could be some legitimate arguments about under what 
> conditions such code should be included in core, but it certainly 
> would be fair game for anything in contrib.
>  
> - m
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> *From:* David Haines [mailto:dlhaines at umich.edu]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 4:35 PM
> *To:* Michael Feldstein
> *Cc:* sakai-dev sakai-dev
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] CDDL & Sakai
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> I'm looking at restlet for a service that would be used by Sakai and 
> would run in the same servlet container but that would not actually be 
> directly dependent on any Sakai code.
> 
> - Dave
> 
> David Haines
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> Digital Media Commons
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Michael Feldstein wrote:
> 
>> I'm not aware of any ruling on CDDL. Offhand, I don't think it would 
>> violate the spirit Sakai's licensing policy, although it probably 
>> would be good to get a ruling on it if we don't have one already.
>>  
>> By the way, what CDDL-licensed code are you thinking about?
>>  
>> - m
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>> *From:* David Haines [mailto:dlhaines at umich.edu]
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 4:06 PM
>> *To:* sakai-dev sakai-dev
>> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] CDDL & Sakai
>>
>> Has there been a decision on the acceptability of the CDDL license 
>> for Sakai code?  I've seen questions and opinions go by but no answer.
>>
>> I found this list of acceptable licenses: 
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LIC/3rd+Party+Licenses+and
>> +Software
>> but see no mention of CDDL.
>>
>> The license text itself is here: http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html
>>
>> Thanks - Dave
>>
>> David Haines
>> CTools Developer
>> Digital Media Commons
>> University of Michigan
>> dlhaines at umich.edu <mailto:dlhaines at umich.edu>
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