Alan, > 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?
You make two excellent points here - I still think getting clarification from Bonnie is the right thing to do since I don't understand the issues very well. dsc
