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

Patrick Finch patrick.finch at sun.com
Fri Sep 5 11:14:14 PDT 2008


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't think that the FSF even approves licenses, it classifies them. 
CDDL is classified as a Free, weak copyleft, non-GPL compatible license. 
  CDDL is OSI-approved, and indeed, on the list of recommended licenses 
produced by the OSI license (non)proliferation committee.



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