Alan,
I've made some fairly significant changes to perl in the process of
integrating perl into Solaris. I've *never* added Sun copyrights as a
result. I have legal approval to contribute to perl, and most of the
contributions are really porting tweaks, so there's no IP that's worth
protecting in any case. In every case I've got the fixes back into the
upstream source before completing the Solaris integration, and that's much
easier to do if I'm not cluttering the source with a load of questionable
copyright assignments.
Plus Roland doesn't work for Sun, so I don't understand why he should be
putting *our* copyright on *his* work. Adding the CDDL to files he's created
from scratch is one thing (and even that's debatable if he wants to get them
accepted upstream), but I really don't think porting changes should need us
to assert copyright - it seems kinda ... discourteous?
You make two excellent points here - I still think getting
clarification from Bonnie is the right thing to do since I don't
understand the issues very well.
dsc
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