Allen Pulsifer schrieb: >> When a developer contributes code to the C# compiler or the >> Mono runtime engine, we require that the author grants Novell >> the right to relicense his/her contribution under other >> licensing terms. >> >> This allows Novell to re-distribute the Mono source code to >> parties that might not want to use the GPL or LGPL versions >> of the code. > > Thank you for the example. I have to respect the fact the Novell is being > very honest and open about it. Conversely, when discussing the JCA, Sun > studiously avoids mentioning the fact that the JCA allows Sun to relicense > contributions under any license it choose, including a commercial license.
I'm not sure if you are right here. Let's look at what Sun writes in his documentation about the contributor agreement, see http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp: >| Most importantly from Sun's perspective, it allows the original donor >| of the code base (Sun, for Sun-sponsored projects), *the ability to >| offer commercial, binary distributions* of the project. and >| By accepting an SCA, Sun >| >| * promises that your contributions will remain Free and open-source >| software (i.e. will be published and will remain available by Sun >| under a Free or open-source software license). and >| 2. >| Q: >| What can Sun do with my contribution? >| A: >| Sun may exercise all rights that a copyright holder has and >| It allows Sun to sponsor the projects to which you want to >| contribute, while retaining the ability to offer commercial licenses. and >| Sun will make certain that any >| contributions that are published under any license, are available >| under an FSF or OSI approved license as well. If that really needed more clarification I agree that this should be done, but IMHO this is clear enough. But a clarification of the implications of the JCA wasn't what Michael Meeks asked for (and BTW also nobody else until now). He pointed at Sun for asking for a JCA without mentioning that his company is doing exactly the same in other projects. I felt the need to correct that false impression. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
