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Oracle can't exactly sue them this way, and CDDL is remarkably less litigation-oriented than some other licenses.


Its certainly not as bad as some licences but there are still some gotchas to the CDDL. The 2 big ones here (AFAICT) is it's not compatible with MIT, and any reimplementation of CDDL code would not have the patent protections of the original.

Also, and again, the validity of a lawsuit isn't going to stop Oracle from filing it.




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