On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 07:31 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On 10/27/2010 08:39 PM, RA Brown wrote: > > On Wed Oct 27 2010 17:05:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) [email protected] > > wrote: > >> Who is now in charge of the code our volunteers contribute? > >> Who "owns" the rights to the code that is summited? With only > >> Oracle employees in control of the "open source" code, is it truly > >> open or just open with what they want to share, even the code that > >> was provided by non-Oracle sources. > > Due to agreements with the "community" developers Sun/Oracle has owned > > the code from the start. The "owner" of the trademark owns the code. > But with this new attitude with the council being made up of all employees, > are they going to share the code? If a volunteer sends in a great piece of > code that makes it work better, does Oracle share the code or can they just > keep it for their "paid" version, if they continue that line of products ....
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