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

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