&gt; He has his reasons for the cddl,<p>What <i>are</i> those reasons, concretely? Would he be better served by choosing e.g. a BSD variant? There&#x27;s a non-trivial cost to choosing a &quot;not-completely-understood&quot; license. Or, equivalently, there&#x27;s <i>value</i> in choosing a well-known &quot;standard&quot; license. While the CDDL should probably be classified as &quot;well-known&quot; at this point, its interaction with other licenses isn&#x27;t, and -- unless you&#x27;re actively working against GPL-ish licenses -- it&#x27;s to be avoided. You can get what what you want by chosing a BSD-esque license instead.<p>I think I agree with many of your other points, though. As I say, I&#x27;m not a lawyer and not overly fond of licensing in the first place. (Still doesn&#x27;t mean you can ignore this concern, unfortunately! <i>If only</i> ignorance of the law were an excuse!)<p>EDIT: If you&#x27;re going to downvote, please explain. I don&#x27;t care about the numbers, but I would like to know why my argument is wrong&#x2F;misguided.