Hello Brian,
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:34:22 PM, you wrote:
BU> So, Evan Powell thinks that the CDDL says that all modifications must
BU> be contributed back to the original source of covered software. I
BU> would like someone to point to me where it says that. It does say that
BU> modifications of covered software must be made available in source
BU> code format, but I don't see anything about a requirement to resubmit
BU> the mods to the community from whence it came.
BU> I don't see the problem here. Eric says that most of the changes will
BU> be integrated into the gate. Evan seems to be reasonable about the
BU> time required and only is complaining about the fact that it isn't all
BU> the changes. Okay, given that Fishworks is a specific product, I think
BU> that some of the changes probably involve tuning, streamlining, and
BU> modifications to make the OS a better storage server at the expense of
BU> other features. In short, changes that are good for Fishworks in
BU> particular but would be bad for OpenSolaris in general. You wouldn't
BU> want those changes in OpenSolaris, would you?
BU> As long as the changes that are good for OpenSolaris are integrated,
BU> and the changes that are not good are made available in source form,
BU> then the Fishworks project has gone beyond the requirements of the
BU> CDDL and done the right thing. Of course, non-covered software has no
BU> such requirement at all.
That makes sense.
But I wonder - since Fishworks is being distributed by Sun where is
all the source code available for all the changes to CDDL covered
software? Except for the code which has already been integrated into
ON.
--
Best regards,
Robert
http://milek.blogspot.com
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