[illumos-Developer] NFSv4 exclusive open breaks ACL's

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:46 -0500, Jason King wrote:
> I seem to recall the contributor agreement had a clause though that
> all contributed code had to remain under an opensource license (even
> by Sun), but I could be mistaken.  Anyone still have a copy laying
> around that can confirm/deny? :)

It had a promise, but I'm not sure it was a "hard" promise, and Oracle
never signed the SCA -- only the contributors did.  So I'm not sure that
Oracle is bound by it.  But anyway, that would only apply to code
accepted under the terms of the SCA -- and that is a vanishingly small
percentage of all the code in Solaris.  Even honoring this requirement,
Oracle could release a dozen or two source files, and nothing else, and
still remain compliant with that promise.

	- Garrett

> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Eric Schrock
> <eric.schrock at delphix.com> wrote:
>         Oracle is (presumably) the original copyright holder, and
>         hence can distribute the source and binaries under whatever
>         license they want.  This was part of the motivation for the
>         old "Sun Contributor Agreement" for external contributions in
>         the OpenSolaris days that granted copyright ownership to
>         Sun/Oracle such that they could relicense it however they
>         wanted without being bound by the CDDL (such as backporting
>         fixes to S10, or ditching open source entirely).
>         
>         
>         Nexenta is not the original copyright holder and hence doesn't
>         have this level of freedom (without an explicit licensing
>         agrement from Oracle).
>         
>         
>         - Eric
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>         
>                 
>                 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>                         In fact, we are legally obligated to, because
>                         we are working with original sources that are
>                         CDDL, so the source can show up not later than
>                         the same time than the binaries do.
>                 
>                 
>                  Then I suspect that Oracle will be obliged to do the
>                 same...
>                 
>                 
>                 If I use code licensed under the CDDL in my
>                 proprietary product, will I have to share my source
>                 code?
>                 
>                 Yes, for any source files that are licensed under the
>                 CDDL and any modifications you make. However, you
>                 don't need to share the source for your proprietary
>                 source files.
>                 
>                 
>                 http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/licensing_faq
>                 
>                 
>                 
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