Copyright notice referring a company other than Sun (original) (raw)

Phil Race Phil.Race at Sun.COM
Thu Jun 18 11:34:58 PDT 2009

Hello,

Mark Wielaard wrote:

Hi Phil,

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:13 -0700, Phil Race wrote: I think it likely matters to (say) commercial licensees who also get the JDK code to know that Sun has a copyright in the file, or even just use the binaries created from those sources, which is why I think we'd always want it to be present. Sure, but that doesn't really impact the public project. That only really matters for your proprietary internal fork of the code. If you wanted to you could just have a script add such a line to the whole codebase when you turn it proprietary.

That's very risky as there are files where its not the case.

And I don't understand the apparent legal nuances of this : >they aren't granted the actual copyright, just a grant to the rights associated with it As far as I understands it, but I could ask someone more legally schooled, it just means the copyright (statement) itself stays with the original contributor, only some of the rights associated with that copyright (statement), like determining the distribution policy, are shared with Sun through the SCA. There is a FAQ about it here: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributoragreement.jsp

I don't want to belabour this, but so far as I can tell from the answers about "sharing" and "joint copyright ownership", it means Sun is granted all the rights etc that you have. Not just "some" of them.

-phil.

Cheers, Mark

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