A discussion on combining CDDL and GPL code

You still need to persuade a court that there has been a copyright violation though, in distributing a derivative of CDDLed and GPLed works. I think the Eblen Moglen and Mishi Choudhary paper is more examining that question, than the damages issue, if I understand correctly (also, I don't think the paper is taking the firm position on the CDDL/GPL issue that this LWN article seems to paint; if Choudhary took a firm stance in the talk, the paper does not have it). That paper makes an interesting point on literal readings: under a very literal reading, one could not combine BSD or other code considered "GPL compatible" with GPL code, without explicit relicensing to GPL.

Interesting stuff.