[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

Alvaro Lopez Ortega alvaro at sun.com
Thu Jun 21 14:38:19 PDT 2007


Alan Coopersmith wrote, On 21/06/07 18:48:
 > BVK Chaitanya wrote:
 >> "Shawn Walker" <binarycrusader at gmail.com> writes:
 >>
 >>> You should also note that the latest contributor agreement states
 >>> that: "Any Contribution that Sun subsequently makes available under
 >>> any license will also be made available
 >>> under a suitable FSF- or OSI-approved license." -
 >>> 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement/sun_contributor_agreement.1.4.pdf
 >>>
 >>
 >> Just for clarification, does this mean derived works by Sun based on
 >> my contributions will also be made available under FSF approved license?
 >
 > FSF *or* OSI approved.   CDDL is OSI approved.

   And even if they don't recommend it (because it's GPL incompatible),
   the CDDL is also a 'Free Software' license for the FSF:

      http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#CDDL

   I'm not sure whether that means 'FSF approved' or not though.

-- 
Greetings, alo.



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