On Wednesday 31 January 2007 04:16 pm, Shawn Walker wrote: > The contributor agreement isn't going anywhere. It just makes plain good > sense to have. Any project without one is on shaky legal ground.
IANAL, but I have to ponder why code released under the BSD license doesn't need to have a contributor agreement signed...??? It's not hard to realize that the reason for that is that the code is truely open and free, and the BSD license has been the only one to stand up in a court of law in that regard. Shaky legal ground? I think not. If code is truely open and free, you don't need any agreement between the author and Sun, and Sun is able to use it. This is truely one of the puzzling piece of OpenSolaris to me. If you contribute BSD licensed code you don't need to sign the contributor agreement, but if you contribute CDDL code, you do. What type of statement does that make about the code? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
