[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-code] Round two: ((pre-)pre-review) ksh93-integrationwebrev 2007-02-02

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

Alan,

> I've made some fairly significant changes to perl in the process of 
> integrating perl into Solaris.  I've *never* added Sun copyrights as a 
> result.  I have legal approval to contribute to perl, and most of the 
> contributions are really porting tweaks, so there's no IP that's worth 
> protecting in any case. In every case I've got the fixes back into the 
> upstream source before completing the Solaris integration, and that's much 
> easier to do if I'm not cluttering the source with a load of questionable 
> copyright assignments.
>
> Plus Roland doesn't work for Sun, so I don't understand why he should be 
> putting *our* copyright on *his* work.  Adding the CDDL to files he's created 
> from scratch is one thing (and even that's debatable if he wants to get them 
> accepted upstream), but I really don't think porting changes should need us 
> to assert copyright - it seems kinda ... discourteous?

You make two excellent points here - I still think getting
clarification from Bonnie is the right thing to do since I don't
understand the issues very well.

dsc