Roman Kennke wrote:
Hi, I will send in my signed SCA the next couple of days, and at the same time find out who is the actual copyright owner (me, or aicas - my employer -, aicas already signed the SCA even). The remaining issue is that the copyright is assigned to the FSF. I have hoped that you would review my code before I start the copyright grantback dance for that code. I am currently discussing this issue with Tom Marble and Mark Wielaard.
What is the copyright grantback dance? If you wrote the code what possible issue can there be? No one should be able to take away your rights to your code. Frankly a lot of this is still learning for us. We've had less info internally on this contribution process etc etc than has been communicated externally. And when legal etc say we can only look at contributions made under an SCA, we pretty much have to do what they say. Perhaps there are other rules which allow it but I don't know that, and as an individual engineer I don't want to be making calls myself. I'd probably get me or Sun in trouble if I did.
It is also unfortunate that you do not have access to our code review system - although this is relatively easy to fix - we can include you as a reviewer in relevant code changes (the system is email and web-based).
The rush (it was a close thing even if that's not apparent) to get the source launched for JavaOne meant that we are nowhere near on the infrastructure to support it etc. -phil.
