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Re: [ProgSoc] GPL & CDDL



On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 22:48 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote:

> BTW, Java isn't dual-licenced, it's GPLv2 with various exceptions.

Not true; it is dual-licensed, it just happens that the "other" license
is not an open-source one.

(This is why you need to sign a contributor agreement granting Sun
additional rights to anything that you wish to contribute to the tree.
This is in fact a better solution than the one that Netscape came up
with for the same problem; Netscape invented the MPL instead.)

- Raz


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