Hi Judy, In addition to the specifics from Brendan about this code, I wanted to answer your question in general.
Historically, license decisions about code additions is usually made on a project-specific basis. In some cases, when we add code to BSD software, we license the additions under BSD as well. This has happened in ON for third-party device drivers in particular. We port a driver and add Sun-specific code/support. And we have licensed that additional code under the same BSD license so that the entire driver can be given back to the upstream community and used as a whole covered by one license. In other cases, code we add to third-party software is separable and significant and the choice has been made to publish the additional code under the CDDL. It's usually up to the project team and legal to make these decisions. Hope that helps. Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Brendan.Doyle at Sun.COM Cc: bonnie.corwin at oracle.com, susan.miller at oracle.com, on-ips-dev at opensolaris.org, Eric.Schlesinger at oracle.com Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:32:18 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: New IPS license (/ws/onnv-clone/usr/src/pkg/license_files/lic_of thanks, that is correct. Bonnie and Susan - do we normally license the additions we make to BSD code under CDDL or do we continue with the BSD for our contributions as well? Or is there no real pattern/rule on this? On Q1: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 08:55 AMPDT, Brendan Doyle wrote: > > As I mentioned on the last call we had, I need to specify > a license for the package that contains the software we > are delivering. Eric and yourself suggested the person > to ask was Bonnie or Susan. > > > On 24/03/2010 15:10, Judith Genovese wrote: >> what is this for and about? >> On Q1: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 04:01 AMPDT, Brendan Doyle >> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> Unless there is an objection by COB today, we will >>> be creating and using the following license for the >>> driver-network-ofk pkg: >>> >>> >>> usr/src/pkg/license_files/lic_of >>> >>> That contains: >>> >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> = >>> ==================================================================== >>> DO NOT TRANSLATE OR LOCALIZE. >>> >>> This package includes software from the OpenFabrics SW Stack. >>> Use of any of this software is governed by the terms of the >>> license below: >>> >>> OpenIB BSD License >>> >>> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without >>> modification,are permitted provided that the following conditions >>> are met: >>> >>> * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright >>> notice, this >>> list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >>> >>> * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above >>> copyright notice, thislist of conditions and the following >>> disclaimer in the documentation and/or >>> other materials provided with the distribution. >>> >>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND >>> CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND >>> ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, >>> THE IMPLIED >>> WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE >>> ARE >>> DISCLAIMED. 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