William James wrote:
> There is no documentation that such an approval is required or *WHY*
> it is required. This is what I am trying to figure out
Sun, as a major corporation, has it's lawyers review the licenses and
legal conditions (co-ownership of copyright, donation of copyright,
retaining copyright, etc.) under which it would contribute code to
other projects. We've done this many times before, for projects such
as Apache, GNOME, X.Org, the Linux kernel, and so on.
It's not something well documented in the community, because it's not
really related to the community, except in cases where the community
wants to merge Sun's existing code into the upstream to reduce the
amount of differences.
> 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?
This review only covers contributions to the ksh93 project, not to all
projects that use CPL1.0.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
