Minor legal questions about usr/src/lib/libshell/common/data/builtins.c ... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-code] Round two:((pre-)pre-review) ksh93-integrationwebrev 2007-02-02

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

Bonnie,

> Re: adding a Sun copyright: there are no hard and fast rules.  When working 
> with third-party projects, we should try to adhere to the culture of that 
> project.  And often, copyrights are not added unless the change is deemed 
> significant in terms of size or complexity.  Most of the people I have talked 
> with in the past have suggested being conservative in this arena (i.e., only 
> add a Sun copyright for something truly substantive).
>
> FYI, I think part of the confusion in this discussions stems from decisions 
> that have previously been made within Sun about adding copyrights and 
> updating the year in a copyright.  To keep things completely simple wrt to 
> process instructions, 'significant' changes are defined as changes that 
> result in a change to the object code and changes to comments that are 
> significant enough to be considered documentation.
>
> Bottom line - the project members should make a call.

Thanks for the clarification.

dsc