Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-05-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:53:00AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: Not a grant of copyright, but clause #3 reads: You hereby grant to Sun, and to any party who receives Your Contribution, a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free, license under any patents

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-27 Thread Christopher Mahan
- Original Message From: Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's Sun's wording, so I think that someone from Sun could probably make the intent here crystal clear and possibly reword the thing to make it clear in future versions of the agreement, as it happens. I don't intend to pay for

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:19:20PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: Again, I don't agree with your interpretation. However, if you wish to pursue this further, I suggest

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet, if you really care about the legal interpretation of an agreement, you will always seek legal council. Sun is not the only organisation to have an open source project that requires joint copyright attribution. The Free Software Foundation and many

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu,

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also grant an irrevocable license to everyone who receives my

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also grant an irrevocable license to everyone who receives my contribution to do whatever they like with it, and that

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:23 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: Am I correct in my interpretation that, had I signed this agreement, that would include this email? Does mail on an OpenSolaris mailing list constitute a submission to a Project? I'm not a lawyer, but ... I'd think that the act of

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:22:24AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:23 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: Am I correct in my interpretation that, had I signed this agreement, that would include this email? Does mail on an OpenSolaris mailing list constitute a submission to a

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also grant an irrevocable license to everyone who receives my contribution to do whatever they like with it, and that presumably includes any patch that I may post to an OpenSolaris