[awards-program] 1/3 Meeting Notes

[Alta Elstad]

Excellent questions and we need to get them resolved within the next few days. 
People on this list: Please call in to the meetings or reply on this list. We 
talked about allowing binary entries. What do you think? What kinds of entries 
do we want? Is fixing a bite-sized bug an entry? Sun employees are not allowed 
to help. What if someone asks a question on a forum and a Sun employee answers? 
We can't prevent that; do we need to try to track it? What a nightmare.

Please, all, lend your ideas to the contest planning.

Thank you for your help!

Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> Hi Alta,
> 
> Good point.  There may be some things for which the SCA doesn't make 
> sense.  But we need to talk to legal because I assume something will 
> need to be signed that tells us the person claims it's their original 
> work, etc.
> 
> One option might be that people license/copyright their submission - 
> that would then be third-party open source.  I don't see how any 
> proprietary entries can possibly work because they would have to be 
> offered under a contract, and I don't think we're prepared to deal with 
> that at all.
> 
> Has there been discussion about source vs binaries for code submissions? 
>  Is it permissible for someone to submit a binary only?  If so, that 
> could be provided under a license as well.
> 
> Bonnie
> 
> 
> Alta Elstad wrote:
>> Doesn't this eliminate many application ports? Many applications do 
>> not yet run on Solaris but might increase interest in Solaris if they 
>> did. Are these not acceptable contest entries? Porting an application 
>> might not require any modification to Solaris itself. The SCA talks 
>> about contributions to Sun open source projects and says that these 
>> contributions will be jointly owned by Sun and the contributor. I 
>> don't think we can insist that a ported application will be co-owned 
>> by Sun.
>>
>> We need something like the SCA for the contest. We need to have 
>> entrants sign that their entry is original work, that they own the 
>> work, etc. But I think we want to allow entries that are wholly owned 
>> owned by third parties and perhaps are not even open sourced, don't we?
>>
>> Of course, any contributions to a product or project owned or managed 
>> by Sun would require an SCA.
>>
>> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>>
>>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bonnie Corwin <Bonnie.Corwin at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Legal has been clear since OpenSolaris launched that an SCA is 
>>>>> required for any/all contributions: code, documentation, 
>>>>> translations, games, designs, anything.  If Legal had their way, 
>>>>> anyone sending email would have an SCA on file.
>>>>>
>>>>> An SCA is going to be required for all contributions to this 
>>>>> contest. We can doublecheck with Legal if you want, but this one's 
>>>>> easy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I did contribute to the OpenSolaris project and I do not even know 
>>>> what an SCA is.....
>>>
>>>
>>> It is a Sun Contributor Agreement: 
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement.
>>>
>>> If someone contributes existing third-party open source or 
>>> documentation or something else that is already published and 
>>> licensed, then the internal legal processes are used to get approval 
>>> to use that code.
>>>
>>> If someone writes code or documentation or does translations or 
>>> whatever and gives that product to OpenSolaris, a Sun Contributor 
>>> Agreement is supposed to be on file.
>>>
>>> Bonnie
>>>
>>>> Jörg
>>>
>>>
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