Joerg Schilling wrote:
Greg Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.nexenta.com/blog
The quote below is rather interesting, though it would have been nice if
he included the specifics of his charge rather than just indulging in a
bit of drive by corporate character assassination.
in early 2009 we were led to understand that Sun Microsystems and other
OpenSolaris developers do not interpret the CDDL quite as we do. It
appears that Sun has elected to make modifications to CDDL licensed code
for their commercial use which they then contribute back only
sporadically, if at all. We hope we are wrong because this could harm
the OpenSolaris community and could result in a sort of tragedy of the
commons.
If Sun does this with source code that has no contributions from non-Sun
people, Sun may do this altough you may dislike it. If Sun would do is with
source code that includes modifications from non-Sun people and if these
modifications from non-Sun people would exceed a certain limit that makes them
"Copyrightable", then Sun would need to make the source code of any
modification available, given that binaries from the code have been published.
Could you explain where you believe to see a problem?
Jörg
Hi Jörg,
I think my original response might have been confusing. It appears to
me that you are replying to the quote from the Nexenta's CEO. This quote
is the second paragraph in my message. My input is the first paragraph
you quoted above. I think we are pretty much saying the same thing here.
I wished to know the specifics of his accusations rather than the vague
innuendo he provided.
Regards,
Greg
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