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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
