update SINGAPORE--Sun Microsystems' Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) addresses the limitations of proprietary and open-source licenses, according to its head honcho Scott McNealy.

Schwartz responded to critics of the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), a variant of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) that Sun created for OpenSolaris, with a counter attack on the ...

New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Joe has all the facts down on the Common Development & Distribution License (CDDL) Sun has proposed for Solaris 10. What he doesn't do (and I'm not going to do it either) is answer the key question -- ...

The company has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make Solaris an open-source project, CNET News.com has learned. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun’s ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and ...

Sun Microsystems officially started down the path to an open-source version of Solaris on Tuesday with a partial release of source code which ultimately will be OpenSolaris. Sun also launched ...

The source code for Oracle’s Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across ...

It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...