Sun Community Source License Principles

[David Johnson]

On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Philipp Gühring wrote:
> The following quote is from:
> http://www.sun.com/981208/scsl/principles.html
> 
> "These important differences and other details make Community Source
> a powerful combination of the best of the proprietary licensing and
> the more contemporary open source technology licensing models."
> 
> Shouldn´t we ask them to remove that, because the Sun Community
> License is not Open-Source? Or can it be a combination of something,
> which it isn´t?

Sun is not calling it Open Source. If you take the marketing adjectives away,
they are simply saying that they are using ideas from Open Source licenses.

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