David.Comay at sun.com wrote: > 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.
Hi, I've been trying to follow this thread, and at this point I'm getting confused. If someone can send me a pointer to a source hierarchy and specific questions that need answers, I'm happy to help figure this out. Thanks. Bonnie > > dsc > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > opensolaris-code at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
