David.Comay at sun.com wrote: > Don't add a Sun copyright to upstream files that you're not > changing. > > Do any a Sun copyright to any files being created that aren't > coming from upstream (for example, OpenSolaris specific > Makefiles.) > > Do add a Sun copyright to files which have a significant > change. The definition of the latter is sometimes hard to > define but changing it to make it compile or work under > OpenSolaris clearly falls in the "add" category. In any case, > please check with Bonnie.
I've made some fairly significant changes to perl in the process of integrating perl into Solaris. I've *never* added Sun copyrights as a result. I have legal approval to contribute to perl, and most of the contributions are really porting tweaks, so there's no IP that's worth protecting in any case. In every case I've got the fixes back into the upstream source before completing the Solaris integration, and that's much easier to do if I'm not cluttering the source with a load of questionable copyright assignments. Plus Roland doesn't work for Sun, so I don't understand why he should be putting *our* copyright on *his* work. Adding the CDDL to files he's created from scratch is one thing (and even that's debatable if he wants to get them accepted upstream), but I really don't think porting changes should need us to assert copyright - it seems kinda ... discourteous? -- Alan Burlison --
