Laurent Blume wrote: > 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,
Hi, Laurent. We are updating Section 10 of the CTI`s TOU to clarify the points you called out. I agree with your position. Also, contributions resulting from the use of the CTI tool will be covered by the SCA. We will clarify that on the site as well. The confusion around these use/contribution policies was an inadvertent implementation error on our part. The g11n guys built a fantastic tool here, but it represents a first for us in that it cuts across all of Sun`s open source projects. That brings up some interesting possibilities for community engagement around translation contributions as well as some communication challenges across multiple projects. So we`ll update our documents as we come out of beta so everything is consistent with existing policies on opensolaris.org. Again, thanks for bringing this up. And thanks to the g11n engineers for building a very cool tool ... Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
