Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan@yahoo.com
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Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]
Posted:
Jan 31, 2007 12:04 PM
in response to: Guest
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--- Casper.***@Sun.COM wrote:
>
> >Ok, I'm going to agree to getting copyright attribution, but with
> the
> >caveat that there needs to be a very easy way to do that, as well
> as
> >rock solid assurances that the contributed code won't become part
> of
> >a proprietary license or even an onerous license at any time in
> the
> >future. Also, you should realize that some people will just not
> want
> >to release their copyright (something about getting paid).
>
> It is joint copyright, as I understand it, not released copyright.
>
> The code will always remain available under the CDDL because you
> can't retroactively unlicense it. The file itself will also remain
> under the CDDL, as changes to the file need to be given back.
>
> At the point where Sun changes the license, the code will remain
> available under the license(s) specified at the time the license is
> changed.
>
> In some cases it may happen that code contributed to OpenSolaris
> find
> its way back into older, non-CDDL Solaris releases; this is one of
> the
> things the joint copyright assignment allows Sun to do. This is
> also
> required for OpenSolaris to work for Sun: if not we'd have to
> disallow
> contributions which fix bugs we might want to back port or features
> are customers want now rather than in Sun's first Solaris release
> based on OpenSolaris.
Thanks, that clears things up for me.
> Now, about getting paid. Well, you really should not contribute
> to free software if you feel that certain uses of that software
> entitle you to get paid for it in currency other then brownie
> points.
I'm not speaking for myself (You'd be be hard pressed to find FOSS
code I've contributed. I write prose much better than code.) I am
just saying that for some people, contributing to FOSS and
contributing to code that a CORP can use is a different story. (I may
be wrong, but that would not be the first time)
> Whenever you feel this hurting, just think of all the other
> software
> you're using which you did not pay for and which was written by
> others
> who weren't getting paid for it; and realize that some of those may
> well be using your software.
I hear you. I have no problem with that. And no, it never hurts. I'm
grateful.
Chris Mahan
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chris_mahan at yahoo dot com
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http://www.christophermahan.com/
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