On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <sh...@nedharvey.com>wrote:
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > > > Can someone provide a link to the requisite source files so that we > > can see the copyright statements? It may well be that Oracle assigned > > the copyright to some other party. > > BTRFS is inside the linux kernel. > Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > There is no other copyright written in there (that I can find with grep) > but > the GPL does say something to contributors, which could "fuzz" the line > between copyright owner for contributions added by somebody outside the > FSF. > "it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your > rights > to work written entirely by you" > > So maybe the contributor retains some rights to reproduce their work in > other situations, under a different license. > You wouldn't see any other license. THAT copy is GPL ONLY. There is absolutely no requirement for them to list any other license than GPL on the code they release under GPL. Opensolaris has CDDL licenses on all the code, and CDDL only. I absolutely guarantee there is code in Opensolaris that was/is dual-licensed. --Tim
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