[awards-program] 1/3 Meeting Notes

[Jesse Silver]

Joerg-

These are both contributions that were highly appreciated by Sun and by 
the community, and when the program gets going, later this month, you 
should definitely think of submitting these as your projects.

More info will come as soon as we finish working out the kinks - the 
announcement should come 1/14 or after.

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> 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.....
>>>       
>> Sun employees and contractors don't need SCA's (Sun Contributor Agreements)
>> because we already have signed agreements with Sun granting full ownership
>> of the copyright to materials we develop (or whatever the local legal
>> equivalent is) - presumably you signed something like that already.
>>     
>
> This is for one part of my contributions.... 
>
> I did contribute a lot of code and know how on how to create a completely free
> OpenSolaris based OS distribution. Later, other distributions have been created.
> They did take at least parts of this code and know how to create other 
> distributions. It is obvious that my work was indeed a contribution to the 
> OpenSolaris community. Whether or not _Sun_ did ever officially accepted this
> contribution is not important. It was used by the OpenSolaris community, so it 
> helped the OpenSolaris "project".
>
> Let me add another contribution: cdrtools. I did never sign a contract with
> Sun on this contribution. IIRC, Someone from Sun did like a mail from me that
> I am either the Author/Copyrightholder or unaware of any irregularity in the 
> legal state of the code.
> Jörg
>
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