CDDL

They are using a license called CDDL, which is a spinoff of the MPL.

OpenSolaris 2005

EPL and CDDL combined were less than Artistic, so those were not on the list.

Standing Against License Proliferation 2008

It's also another single-community - why do we see the Perl community getting something but there's no Ruby license, Mozilla, Eclipse or CDDL allegedly nicer version of Mozilla, but much less of a community around it?

Standing Against License Proliferation 2008

Regarding license types: things like Affero and MPL/CDDL/EPL fill niches, yet complicate the licensing regime out there.

Standing Against License Proliferation 2008

At the time CDDL was being introduced, I wanted to write an illustrated version of it.

Pencil Decorations Artwork 2006

People very rarely choose licenses like MPL, EPL, or CDDL unless they are part of those communities Mozilla, Eclipse, and Sun, respectively.

Standing Against License Proliferation 2008

A recent CDDL/GPL misunderstanding that made news and started flame wars, prompted me to revisit an old illustration.

Pencil Decorations Artwork 2006

However, Cantrill says that Oracle would have a hard time arguing for intellectual rights over the code marked as CDDL in the leak, since at this point Oracle has done little to clarify what's going on.

Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2011

Developers on the OpenIndiana discussion group were concerned about whether it was safe to even look at code marked with the CDDL license because of the nature of the release; some believed it was potentially harmful to the open-source community because it presented the possibility of future legal claims by Oracle over intellectual property against open-source versions of the kernel that resembled the copyrighted code.

Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2011

While the majority of the code in the archive is marked with the licensing header for the Common Development and Distribution License, there is also a significant amount of code and makefiles covered by Oracle and other companies' copyrights that did not carry the CDDL, as well as older code bearing Sun Microsystem's copyright in a directory of the archive named "closed."

Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2011