On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:43 AM, William Hay <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pretty certain that there are open source projects that manage > without this. There's an obscure little project called Linux that > only requires knowledge of the code's provenance and compatible > licensing.
Not trying to launch any GPLv2 vs GPLv3 arguments here, but one of the reasons why Linux can't be switched to a newer version of the license is that Linus does not own the copyright. This means lack of flexability in terms of licensing. > In any case don't Oracle own most of the Grid engine code As we are stuck with SISSL, which is a retired open source license (Sun killed it), we will miss the flexability moving forward. If we don't own the copyright of the code, then even if Oracle were to auction the IP of Grid Engine, and even if we were the buyer, we still have the restrictions of SISSL due to external contributions. > or is that something else you're going to be announcing? I think even > the prince of darkness ^W^W^W^W Univa has been know to accept > contributions without copyright assignment. I think they do need copyright assignment - and that is one of the things we did not like at the beginning, ie. we did not want to contribute code to open core projects. But note that I am not against Univa - I believe Univa is improving Univa Grid Engine in a direction that is different than what we at Open Grid Scheduler & Scalable Logic are heading. Rayson > > William _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
