I've been told that Univa have been giving customers a "health warning" to avoid Son of Grid Engine, the community distribution. They claim I'm distributing Sun proprietary material, and am lucky Oracle lawyers haven't descended yet.
Actually, the Sun material is all from the defunct sunsource.net under a free licence <https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/wiki/WikiStart#CopyrightandNaming>, used in the spirit of the old project manifesto; see also archive.org. Oracle even offered to supply it directly. I can't see anything of Sun's the gridengine team (now at Univa?) are likely to have put there inadvertently, but that would be Oracle's problem and presumably Univa's if it was in the gridengine or arco repo. As far as I know, the only SGE-related proprietary stuff even accessible to non-customers is/was obsolete binaries -- whose licence Sun/Oracle people effectively told us to ignore anyway -- and the old documentation/blueprints. I've no idea why they feel the need to attack underhandedly -- specifically amongst colleagues and potential employers -- the professional reputation of someone who mis-guidedly offered support, but others should beware. [Apologies not to have been able to respond to things here recently, and there seems to be plenty that needs a response if I can find time. Anyhow, now for something more constructive.] _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
