2011/11/10 Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>: > Given the fact that Oracle does not own all needed Copyrights, there is a need > to supply source. > > Lets wait and decide whether to sue Oracle in case that source is not provided > ;-)
I admit that I have never read the previous SCA that was required for external contributions to OpenSolaris, but I expect it is pretty much similar to the later OCA: By signing the OCA, a third-party contribution in Solaris has been licensed by Oracle under terms that basically say: Your grant us the rights to do basically everything with your code (... and you cannot revoke us that right!) "you hereby assign to us joint ownership [...] you hereby grant to us a perpetual, **irrevocable**, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free, **unrestricted license** to exercise all rights under those copyrights. [...];" [1] I'd expect Oracle's law department made sure all code in Solaris that is not copyrighted by Oracle themselve has been licensed under terms of an SCA/OCA or other agreements similarly granting them such rights. - Mathieu [1] http://oss.oracle.com/oca.pdf ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
