Shawn Walker wrote:
No, that's wrong. All contributions to any repository that we host
must to be covered by an SCA, or by virtue of Sun employment.
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/lead_reference
Then the policy is wrong as well and seems questionable at best. Not a
problem for you Alan, but...
The policy has been that way since the start. You may not personally
agree with it, that doesn't mean it is incorrect.
Not all code used everywhere on os.org even *needs* an SCA.
Any code contributed to opensolaris.org could potentially be included in
OpenSolaris, and therefore needs to be covered as such. That's no
different to the way that projects such as Apache work.
And it seems like there is a good chance this policy is not being
enforced 100%.
Any projects that aren't enforcing this policy are not following the
project guidelines, however I don't know of any such cases. And the
part of the goals of automating it is to make it easier to catch any
potential issues.
Can we please fix this policy?
Only Sun Microsystems have the ability to change the policy.
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Alan Burlison
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