Fritz,
I
know it's probably early to ask this, but will more of the IP be moved
to SISSL or other open license in the near term or over time?
Thanks,
Yes, Mark. This is in
essence what I was intending to respond. The SISSL is a recognized and
liberal open source license. As such and within the rules
set forth by the license
itself it allows for use of the code also by parties who are not the
copyright owners of
the code under the SISSL.
Cheers,
Fritz
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Kloss
wrote:
Yikes! That's a rather pessimistic reading, isn't it?
The copyright of any code, even for free and open source software,
is
owned by someone. What matters is what they have licensed it to be used
for. Last I checked, the OSI considers SISSL to be open source.
Feel free to call me naive, but this announcement sounds like good
news to
me - Oracle were clearly not interested in gridengine. Congratulations
to
Fritz, the engineers and Univa :)
Mark
Should
we assume that, since Univa claims ownership of all copyright and
trademarks, _including_ the code under the SISSL, that Univa will be
fighting to shutdown the open source versions of Grid Engine (open
gridscheduler and Son of Grid Engine)?
John
Kloss II.
Hello,
At the end of last week Reuti had already picked up that Oracle gave
notification to customers that support for Oracle Grid Engine would
transfer to Univa. Today, the transition has become official so allow me
to provide more details and background.
The Grid Engine engineering team always has been a tightly knit group,
even prior to the days of joining Sun in 2000 and then throughout all
the years at Sun, the one year at Oracle and now since Jan 2011 at
Univa. Our dedication and passion is to evolve the Grid Engine
technology and help Grid Engine users to apply Grid Engine successfully
in their various use cases.
The announcement Univa has made public today will allow us to do that
directly for Oracle Grid Engine customers. Most noteworthy it will also
remove confusion around Grid Engine as the transition has re-united the
full intellectual property including trademarks and all copyright which
my team has built over so many years. This encompasses code under the
SISSL, the proprietary Oracle code and other assets like documentation,
the certification and test suite, diagnostics tools and similar.
So this is an exciting day for the Grid Engine technology and also for
the Grid Engine team at Univa.
If you wish to read more about this please see the press release here:
http://www.univa.com/about/news/press_2013/10222013.php
Best regards,
Fritz
Fritz Ferstl | CTO and Business Development, EMEA
