A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code

Posted May 20, 2016 3:28 UTC (Fri) by clopez (guest, #66009)
In reply to: A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code by smoogen
Parent article: A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code

The CDDL is not beeing violated (not even in literal strict interpretation) by Canonical. So i dont think Oracle can claim any damage to Canonical at all.

What is beeing violated is the GPL, but only if you argue that ZoL is a derivated works of the Linux Kernel.

So, in my opinion (IANAL) the only who can claim damages to Canonical is some of the Kernel developers because of an infringement of the GPL derivative works terms.

But in order to do that they first have to demonstrate that ZoL is a derivative works of the Linux Kernel. And arguing that is going to be difficult given what the main author of the Linux Kernel (Torvalds) said previously about AFS: https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/3/228

A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code

Posted May 23, 2016 8:30 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Oracle have copyright in GPLed code in the Linux kernel, don't they? Or is that code trivial enough to not worry about?