Dave, you might have wanted to check with me first before you post such messages.
If you check your exchanges with me from the beginning of this year then you will find that I had pointed out to you that not all of what you have integrated in the Son of Grid Engine project is kosher. Just because it was accessible from a site offering code under an open source license doesn't mean all of its content on that site is under that same license. You still have to look at the fine print. In particular you have to check whether things are redistributable and may come with copyright issues before you start providing them. The code was open source and under the SISSL and certain binaries were under a binary code license that made them redistributable but other pieces, like parts of the documentation for instance, are a different matter. We've turned every stone before defining the basis for our Univa Grid Engine work because we do indemnify our customers and partners from legal allegations from 3rd parties and we would be liable. I neither want users of Grid Engine nor those who provide any version to be in trouble so I suggest everybody does some homework. Cheers, Fritz Am 09.11.2011 um 19:14 schrieb Dave Love: > 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 Fritz Ferstl | CTO and Business Development, EMEA Univa Corporation | The Data Center Optimization Company E-Mail: [email protected] | Phone: +49.9471.200.195 | Mobile: +49.170.819.7390
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