[indiana-discuss] Name of Distro?

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Chris Mahan wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > That said I still do no think anybody other than Sun can or should call
>> > anything OpenSolaris. Saying that a distribution is 'based' on
>> > OpenSolaris code/standards is probably a better definition.
>> 
>> Which is exactly what I was trying to point out. If Indiana is a
>> community project, not a Sun project, it cannot be called
>> "OpenSolaris."
>> 
>
> Does that mean that people who work on Luna_the
> _Community_Project_not_the_Sun_project don't have to sign the Sun
> Contributor Agreement?

Kidding aside, that's a major point of confusion (especially with the
slashdot crowd). Here's the thing (I'm pretty sure): The agreement is
needed only for contributions that want to be part of something Sun
Microsystems ships or plans to ship some day (e.g.  Nevada). I'm pretty
sure, no company would take on the legal risk of not requiring that.

Eric