[oi-dev] OpenIndiana Docs - updated

[Nikola M]

On 05/17/16 08:54 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 05/16/16 11:28 PM, Nikola M wrote:
>> On 05/17/16 05:46 AM, Michael Kruger wrote:
>>> In regards to the PDL, to whom does one submit a signed contributor 
>>> agreement?
>>
>> To Openindiana and illumos surely.
>
> Neither OI nor illumos have any legal entity to assign copyright to - 
> no foundations or non-profit corporations were ever formed.

One more reason to have PDL in use, because it remains free, it remains 
inclusive and always available and can't be turned into proprietary, all 
that even without contributor agreement.

Therefore, that as expected has much more sense, and "Openindiana all 
rights reserved" has no full/any meaning, but it has if exact license, 
like PDL (or other compatible, MIT is compatible as I know) is stated.

>
> You could only assign to individuals like Garrett or Alasdair, or to a
> commercial company like Joyent, Everycity, or Oracle.
>
> I suspect after what happened to OpenSolaris though, no one is interested
> in further assignments to commercial entities of the right to make things
> proprietary.
>
> Fortunately, none of the licenses involved require such agreements.
>
>     -alan-