[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Joerg Schilling]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

> >I did personally read the agreement and I found two time bombs that I like to be
> >fixed before I am going to sign it because I have a more wide spread >commitment
> >with my contributions than the majority of the involved people. Because of my
> >more wide spread commitment, I am affected by the named time bombs.
> >
> >I hope that this problem can be solved, but the original topic of this thead was
> >GNU utils vs. Solaris utils. I lilke to stay on topic.
>
> Joerg, you claim about some "time bombs" but you also say that you
> gather from your own reading.
>
> I'm sure that the Fraunhofer institute has multiple lawyers and I'm 
> certain that they have lawyers who are specialized in IP.

There is nothing like "The Fraunhofer Institute" and our institute has no 
lawyer. I am however doing enough contract and law related stuff to know that
a contract that was written in an ambiguous way has a high probability to become
missinterpreted later.

All I ask Sun is to remove the ambiguous parts.

Jörg

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