On 1/17/07, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "WJ" == William James <williamjamesgnusolaris at gmail.com> writes:
>
> WJ> What happens if I contribute something to Opensolaris as CDDL
> WJ> code. Does this mean that everything could be contributed under
> WJ> CPL1.0 to someone else?
>
> IANAL, but I believe that in the general case, the answer is "yes". If
> you contribute code directly to OpenSolaris, you must sign a joint
> copyright assignment. My understanding is that this gives Sun the
> authority to distribute the code under a different license. You, of
> course, retain (joint) ownership of the code and can distribute it under
> any license you choose.
What happens if the existing license of the code is incompatible to
the CDDL or GPLv3?
Cheers,
William
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