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anonbanker on June 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

CDDL is not a free software licence. it was explicitly created to be GPL-incompatible, in order to preserve Sun's control over their IP.

the_why_of_y on June 14, 2015 [–]

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

  Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0 (#CDDL)

    This is a free software license.

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