> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling > > The German Urheberrecht is very obvious in this case, you cannot get > any rights > on other peoples work unless this is OSS or there is a fair > compensation.
Or if the person making the contribution willingly assigned copyright to someone else. Such is the case if you modified a file which is copyright Oracle, and you gave those modifications to Oracle, and agreed to let Oracle continue distributing it, labeled "Copyright Oracle." I don't know if that was Sun's or Oracle's policy, but I fully expect they would reject any community contributions unless you were willing to assign copyright to them. Specifically just for this reason. Suppose I'm wrong about this. It will only matter if we hear any news about the German government prosecuting Oracle. So until that happens, Joerg, the whole argument is moot. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
