Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 05:53 pm, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
The only statement that makes is that you misunderstand the licenses.
A BSD-licensed project could require contributor agreements to avoid the
sorts of headaches they had when UCB changed the BSD license to drop the
hated advertising clause and they had to get each copyright owner to agree
to relicense under the same terms.
This is not about license, it's about process. Today, as it stands, you can
bring BSD code into Solaris/OpenSolaris without a contributers agreement,
this is what I meant about BSD not requiring a contributer agreement (from
Sun to bring into Solaris/OpenSolaris) and not what the BSD project requires.
You can't do the same for CDDL. Maybe this is about Sun's legal team
misunderstanding the license then...but they seem to know the legalities of
these licenses pretty well, IMO.
You should be able to do the same for CDDL if you're trying to treat the
software as an external package we distribute the way we do with many outside
projects, and not as something integrated into our project and which will
evolve long-term as part of our code tree and not track an external community.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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