Simon Phipps wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 14:28, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>
>> Only non-Sun community members file SCAs so that's a problem.
>
> I have wondered for ages whether we should actually have all
> contributors file an SCA regardless of employer?
I've already signed over full rights to the code I write to my
employer, and don't have the authority to sign any document about
their ownership of the code, nor does the document I signed allow
me to retain co-ownership as the SCA does.
Now if you wanted to convince HR to change the standard copyright
assignment Sun makes all employees sign to match the SCA, that
might work, but I'd wonder if Sun is ready to manage co-ownership
of all employee-produced source code and to guarantee to it's
employees that all code they write will be perpetually available
under a OSI/FSF-approved license. (Very interesting questions
of course, but not really ones to be explored in this forum.)
On the other hand, we already allow corporate-level SCA's for
corporations assigning their employees to work on OpenSolaris,
when their employees are similarly unable to sign over rights
to their work-for-hire for their employer - presumably Sun has
an implied corporate-level SCA with itself.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
