As per my previous email, it depends on whether your a Sun employee
doing a pull, or a non-Sun employee doing a push (contribution). For
the latter, you absolutely need to sign the CA regardless of license. A
BSD license does not give you a free pass.
For the Sun employee doing a pull, like yourself, you need to go through
the OSR legal tool. (That's an internal tool that examines the license
and does a legal review of it.) ALL code pulled in by a Sun employee,
whether you embed this in a Sun product such as Solaris or just use it
on your desktop for your own work, needs to go through OSR. (If you
haven't been doing that, we need to talk.)
I'm sure exposing our internal workings is boring for people, but there
you go. Some folks complain about Sun being too opaque. ;-) I just
wanted to clear up some confusion here.
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thursday 01 February 2007 11:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 06:59 pm, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
I don't expect us to ask Joerg for a contributor agreement to include
the CDDL licensed cdrecord, because it's an external project.
I would actually, and don't think legal will let something like that in,
knowingly, without a signed agreement.
Why do you think that?
Because, through my experience working with legal, the only way to get code
into Solaris without signing a contributor's agreement is to have the code
licensed under BSD. This is external code, coming into Solaris, that will
ship in a Sun product.
Maybe you have a different experience.
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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