[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] opencsw-policy: The copyright notice

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>    2011/3/1 Maciej BliziÅ*ski <[1]maciej at opencsw.org>
>      GPL is a well known and well understood license, certainly more known
>      and better understood than CDDL -- that's why it is my preferred
>      choice. Â
> 
>    Personally, I dont like picking a choice merely because [it's popular, and
>    I dont understand the alternatives as well]. I prefer to increase my
>    understanding of the alternatives before making the choice.

GPL is what the debian policy is licensed with. If we choose GPL, we can
cherry pick existing paragraphs from the extensive and thorough debian
policy (without having to re-invent the wheel) and focus on parts that
are specific to us.

WRT to GPL vs CDDL http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cddl+vs+gpl

Sebastian