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by rbanffy 5804 days ago
The CDDL may be a problem for a new Red Hat or Canonical that decide to take OpenSolaris/Illumos forward.
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It's not GPL-compatible, but it's an FSF- and OSI-approved license.
One of the incentives to use GPL-like licenses is that your competitors cannot take your contributions and run with them and, at the same time, have to make their contributions available to you.

This is the model that made Red Hat possible. It would not happen on top of BSD.