I know what I'm going to ask my open source professor about
Thursday, September 11th, 2008In a few weeks, when we get to open source licenses, I’m going to petulantly raise my hand and say, “how can a piece of software be ‘dual licensed’?” I’m playing around with GlassFish, the open source application server from Sun. I’m trying to decide what I think of it as compared to JBoss. Accordingly, I pulled the Wikipedia entry, and lo… I found this oblique statement:
“GlassFish is free software, dual-licensed under two free software licences: the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) and the GNU General Public License (GPL) with the classpath exception.”
Whaaaaaat? What does this mean? My law school issue spotting radar lit up like a Christmas tree in Guadalupe.
Share on Facebook