[oi-dev] Copyright for contributors - not in files, OI branded zones, binary compatibility

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/22/13 12:10 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/22/13 09:19 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>> Well, the CDDL does not mention unmodifyable parts,
>>
>> http://opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0 section 3.3:
>>
>>      You must include a notice in each of Your Modifications that identifies
>>      You as the Contributor of the Modification. You may not remove or alter
>>      any copyright, patent or trademark notices contained within the Covered
>>      Software, or any notices of licensing or any descriptive text giving
>>      attribution to any Contributor or the Initial Developer.
>
> But this does not cover the CDDL template text...

The CDDL template text sounds like "any notices of licensing" to me - but I'm
neither a lawyer nor a corporate spokesman, so I can't say definitively.

> ...anyway, this template text needs a change in any case as opensolaris.org is
> no longer existent. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing does not reproduce
> the license text.

It redirects to https://solaris.java.net/ which has a "License" link at the
top which provides the CDDL text.

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