[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

[Gregory Youngblood]

Oracle owns copyright they don't have to follow cddl if they choose not to.

Irrelevant if these files have cddl license stamped on them. Could have been done by anyone. Until or if this is officially recognized by Oracle as an official release it is poison fruit. Anything or one that looks at this and incorporates it into any projects risks the destruction of that project. Something I am sure Oracle wouldn't mind happening to illumos or openindiana. 

This is no different than someone stealing Windows code, slapping gpl licenses on the code and releasing it. They were not legally authorized to put that license on that code and release it so it does not count and in court it would not be recognized.  Same as a locksmith making an extra copy of your housekey and giving it to someone saying tale anything you want. 

Best course of action is to ignore it, don't look at it, and especially don't download it.

Greg

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From: "Nikola M" <minikola at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?
Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 12:28 pm


Ray Arachelian wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 07:31 AM, Nikola M wrote:
>> Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that,
>> besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore?
>>
> It's a trap that smells much worse than SCO's attempt to kill Linux via
> lawsuit.  Stay away from it.  You wouldn't want OpenIndiana or illumos
> to be tainted by it - if they are, they'll be sued into oblivion, and
> they will cease to exist.
>
> If Oracle releases the source to Solaris 11 through normal channels,
> then, by all means, have at it.  But this isn't it.

Well, surely Illumos will not use that code directly at first as you said.
Until there are concerns such as you said.

But nature of CDDL is that it provides protection for lawsuits aether
for source that in under CDDL or for so called "patents" and it extends
to derived work. If someone want its patents or exclusive rights it
should not derive its OS (Solaris11) from code under Free software
license that provides "open forever" clause.

Point is, (and someone also said it) that only way Oracle can stop
others for using CDDL-ed work and Oracle's derived work from Opensolaris
is not to release it for some time.
And that is exactly what Oracle did. It did not released updates on code
for some time and once code is out
it does not matter who made it available.
Maybe Oracle would have legal trouble from someone if code is NOT
published by any mean. In this way Oracle is protected.

Code is available, it is there, it is under CDDL because it is
opensolaris derived work and one can use it as every derived code that
came out from any such free software / open source license that has
requirement of publishing source code for derived work.

Thing is, if it is not good thing for Illumos to use it, someone else
might use it freely and make something out of it.
Others concerned and frightened (majority I suppose) might not touch it
as a precaution but to see is as a blueprint for constructing something
compatible maybe, if compatibility with Oracle Solaris is needed in the
future.


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