Thanks very much
On Q1: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 10:36 AMPDT, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> 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: Judith.Genovese at oracle.com
> 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. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS
>>>> BE LIABLE FOR
>>>> ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
>>>> CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
>>>> (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
>>>> SERVICES;
>>>> LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
>>>> CAUSED AND ON
>>>> ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
>>>> TORT
>>>> (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
>>>> USE OF THIS
>>>> SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Sun components of this package are licensed under License 1,
>>>> version 1.0 of
>>>> the Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL") as
>>>> published by Sun Microsystems, Inc. You can obtain a copy of the
>>>> license at
>>>> usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing
>>>> .
>>>> See the License for the specific language governing permissions
>>>> and limitations under the License.
>>>>
>>>> When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
>>>> file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
>>>> If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
>>>> fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
>>>> information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
>>>>
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> =
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The manifest will be updated to have:
>>>>
>>>> license cr_Sun license=cr_Sun
>>>> license lic_CDDL license=lic_CDDL
>>>> license lic_of license=lic_of
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brendan
>>>
>>>
>>> Judith Genovese | Legal Counsel | 1.626.408.3138
>>> Oracle Legal Department/Development and Strategic Initiatives
>>> 800 Royal Oaks, Monrovia, CA 91016
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>
>
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