if your file landed in opensolaris, then you signed an SCA which means you gave sun and now oracle rights akin ownership.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Aug 13, 2010, at 16:39, Paul Gress wrote: >> >> > On 08/13/10 06:35 AM, andrew wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >> I don't expect to ever see binaries for the >> OpenSolaris distribution again. The most I think we >> can expect is a preview of Solaris 11 along the lines >> of the old "Solaris Express" programme. I hope I will >> be proved wrong though. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > I agree, and also I expect the source code to >> remain stagnant as far as new innovations are >> concerned (similar to dtrace and zfs). Oracle will >> develop new technology in a closed source fashion. >> They will keep the current source up to date, as the >> CDDL says they have to contribute back, just nothing >> new. >> >> As the copyright holder Oracle is not bound by the >> CDDL and has no compulsion to "contribute back". > > AFAIK, CDDL is per-source-file. If a CDDL source file > has other copyrights on it as well, maybe they do. > Unfortunately, few if any of them probably do have other > copyrights on them (at least explicitly). Not that I recall > anything about copyright assignment by contributors. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
