Sponsors are an artifact resulting from our lack of an external SCM.
Even with a sponsor, every non-Sun employee that wants to contribute
code to OpenSolaris must sign the CA. Period. You have to get that BSD
license out of your head. It does not affect the process in any way.
You must follow the same steps no matter what the license is.
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thursday 01 February 2007 05:41 pm, Stephen Harpster wrote:
As per my previous email, it depends on whether your a Sun employee
doing a pull, or a non-Sun employee doing a push (contribution). For
the latter, you absolutely need to sign the CA regardless of license. A
BSD license does not give you a free pass.
For the Sun employee doing a pull, like yourself, you need to go through
the OSR legal tool. (That's an internal tool that examines the license
and does a legal review of it.) ALL code pulled in by a Sun employee,
whether you embed this in a Sun product such as Solaris or just use it
on your desktop for your own work, needs to go through OSR. (If you
haven't been doing that, we need to talk.)
Ok, that clears it up for me some, and I'm internal.:-)
If I understand you correctly, an external community member can get something
into OpenSolaris if they can get a sun employee to bring it in for them, and
they license it under BSD. Then they will not have to sign a CA.
This pretty much applies to everyone, since they need to have a sponsor to
begin with. Maybe I'm missing something here...
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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