[apologies for the repost, different address subscribed on the cc list] Hi all,
I've brought this particular issue up with this project's author, but I would like to raise more general awareness. Some background: leading a small team of dedicated volunteers, I've contributed French translations to OpenSolaris.org, for the French portal, fr.opensolaris.org. For that, we all had to sign the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA), which was of course perfectly fine, and I ensured myself that all non-Sun contributors did read and send it. Now, we're asked on the I18N group to use a new portal, there: http://cti.sunvirtuallab.com/ It looks technically very nice and useful, but there's a catch. The License Terms that have to be agreed on before using it are some general Sun License Terms, and they seem to go far beyond the SCA terms. https://cti.sunvirtuallab.com/community/resources/CommunityTranslationTools_TOU.html In particular, section 10: "10. You agree that with respect to any ?moral? or equivalent rights (including, without limitation, rights of attribution, integrity, disclosure, and withdrawal) You hereby: (i) assign such rights to Sun, (ii) waive such rights and (iii) agree never to assert such rights or to institute or maintain any action against Sun relative to any such rights in the Content You provide. To the extent that such rights cannot be assigned or waived by operation of law, You grant to Sun, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and worldwide license to fully exercise all such rights akin to ownership, with rights to sublicense through multiple levels of sublicensees and further, You consent to Sun's use sufficient to allow Sun to exercise the rights granted herein." This goes much further than what Section 2 and 4 of the SCA say: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/sca.pdf I don't think that's a conspiracy, only that a standard Sun License was copy/pasted (nobody read those things, right? :-). Just, I'd like to make sure that all those projects popping around always state that Community members contributing to OpenSolaris.org do so under the SCA, no more, no less. It's what I would like to continue doing. Thank you for your understanding, Laurent -- / Leader de Projet & Communaut? | I'm working, but not speaking for \ G11N http://fr.opensolaris.org | Bull Services http://www.bull.com / FOSUG http://guses.org |
