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The Common Development and Distribution LicenseThe Common Development and Distribution LicensePosted Dec 9, 2004 18:31 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: The Common Development and Distribution License by iabervon Parent article: The Common Development and Distribution License The differences really don't matter much in practice. Sun's license allows modifications only if the modified license has a new name and no references to Sun (other than a notice that the new licence differs from the CDDL). The GPL text itself can't be changed, but a derived license can be created by including the GPL file in a distribution, and then saying that the license that applies to the work is the GPL together with a set of modifications. It seems that language like Sun's is the minimum necessary to prevent fraud; if a license text can be modified without restriction, this could be used to fool people into accepting terms they disagree with (just insert a strategic "not" somewhere). The only sense in which the difference matters is that if the GPL is altered in this way, the original text of the GPL has to be included in full, which offends some people who don't like the condemnation of proprietary software in the GPL's preamble.
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