"Nikola M." <minik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Contributions to Illumos, etc, those that are done in CDDL - but
> contributor did not sign contract with Oracle about they owning the
> code, stops Oracle from including it in closed source product without
> releasing it, but allows them to make product with released code (or
> they rewrite it).

I mentioned already, that Oracle does not own all the rights on the code to 
make it close again. Oracle does e.g. not have permission to distribute a 
closed source "hsfs" module as there is no such contributor agreement for a 
significant amount of the code.-
 
Jörg

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