On Wednesday 31 January 2007 06:25 pm, John Plocher wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > This is truely one of the puzzling piece of OpenSolaris to me. If you > > contribute BSD licensed code you don't need to sign the contributor > > agreement, but if you contribute CDDL code, you do. What type of > > statement does that make about the code? > > It says that the BSD licenses (and others like it) don't even begin to > address the issues of patent liability, while the CDDL does.
John, Ok, then why don't we need to cover patent liability on BSD code? IOW, why are our lawyers concerned with liability of CDDL code but not BSD? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
