On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:53:00AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:

> Not a grant of copyright, but clause #3 reads:
> 
>   You hereby grant to Sun, and to any party who receives Your Contribution,
>   a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free,
>   license under any patents owned or licensable by You at any time without
>   payment to third parties, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell,
>   import and otherwise transfer Your Contribution in whole or in part,
>   alone or in combination with or included in any product, work or materials
>   arising out of the Project to which Your Contribution was submitted, and
>   to sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties through multiple tiers
>   of sublicensees or other licensing mechanisms at Sun's option. 
> 
> There's not much grey there.

Well blow me down if version 1.4 hasn't removed the "and to any party
who receives Your Contribution," clause.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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