[osol-discuss] GPLv3?

[Peter Buckingham]

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> Stephen Lau wrote:
>>
>>> You seem to have misread the email.  Stephen (Harpster)'s email is
>>> explicitly asking the community to get involved in the discussion.  As
>>> the copyright holder - yes, only Sun can make the actual license
>>> switch - but this is not a unilateral executive decision.
>>>
>> Does that (the copyright ownership) also apply to contributed code?
>>
>> Ian
> 
> joint-copyright, yes... that's how the SCA (Sun Contributor Agreement) 
> works.

Note this isn't unusual. SGI asks anyone who makes changes to XFS on 
linux to assign the copyright to them.

peter