[alec]

The person who wrote the CDDL says it was deliberately written to be incompatible with the GPL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribu...

[mzs]

And the next person in that cite is disagreeing with that.

[zobzu]

that, exactly that. this is the point. proprietary does not mean closed source. it means that it belongs to one entity (it is owned)/incompatible.