On 1/15/07, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> William James writes:
> > > > > Outbound OSR #4715 is approved by everyone.
> > > > >
> > > > > It allows us to make contributions of OpenSolaris code to the ksh93
> > > > > project, using the Common Public License on the code we contribute.
> [...]
> > > Could you elaborate on what this means for this project (I am new to
> > > this list, please excuse me if I start asking silly things)?
> >
> > Can anyone answer my question?
>
> What about that statement was confusing?
There is no documentation that such an approval is required or *WHY*
it is required. This is what I am trying to figure out
>
> The legal and business folks did an "outbound open source review,"
> which means that they looked at the legality of Sun people writing
> code and contributing it to the ksh93 project under the Common Public
> License. That has been approved, which means that we can do this if
> we want.
OK.
Question: What happens if I contribute something to Opensolaris as
CDDL code. Does this mean that everything could be contributed under
CPL1.0 to someone else? Are the CDDL and CPL1.0 licenses
interchangeable?
Cheers,
William
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(.>__<.) GNU/Solaris hacker
