> > > > On Aug 13, 2010, at 16:39, Paul Gress wrote: > > > On 08/13/10 06:35 AM, andrew wrote: > >> > >>> > >> I don't expect to ever see binaries for the > OpenSolaris distribution again. The most I think we > can expect is a preview of Solaris 11 along the lines > of the old "Solaris Express" programme. I hope I will > be proved wrong though. > >> > >> > > > > I agree, and also I expect the source code to > remain stagnant as far as new innovations are > concerned (similar to dtrace and zfs). Oracle will > develop new technology in a closed source fashion. > They will keep the current source up to date, as the > CDDL says they have to contribute back, just nothing > new. > > As the copyright holder Oracle is not bound by the > CDDL and has no compulsion to "contribute back".
AFAIK, CDDL is per-source-file. If a CDDL source file has other copyrights on it as well, maybe they do. Unfortunately, few if any of them probably do have other copyrights on them (at least explicitly). Not that I recall anything about copyright assignment by contributors. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
