And on the heels of my cynicism is useful information from Alan.
I'd just like to apologize if my comments offended or annoyed anyone
working at Oracle, still doing doing Good Things. My cynicism and
frustration wasn't meant to be directed at them, but at the Oracle
organization's decisions in the past, and possibly future.
cheers,
Brian
On 12/20/11 10:05 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
On 12/20/11 03:43, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote:
The code comes together with legal guidelines how to use it... as long
as those guidelines are followed, there is nothing wrong about it.
If I take something you wrote and post it without your permission under a
license you didn't approve it to be distributed under, I'm sure you'd
agree
there's something very wrong with that. I can't relicense Linux to
CDDL by
just throwing up a torrent of its sources with a bunch of CDDL notices
in.
Without any sort of Oracle statement that this is an intentional release,
and with no links to it from an official Oracle site (including
opensolaris.org), you have to assume it's unauthorized.
[Just to be clear, I am *NOT* any sort of authorized Oracle spokesman
and not
issuing any statement on behalf of Oracle. I am simply an engineer
with many
years of experience dealing with software licensing around open source
projects, offering my personal perspective. This is always true for
things
I post to mailing lists, but most especially true in this case.]
This is not marked as classified or proprietary,
Have you checked every file in it for such markings? Preparing the
source
releases is not a simple process, and if someone unfamiliar with that
process
was to just grab it, they might well include such files, either by
mistake or
malicious intent.
Of course, you also have no guarantee that any file you find on an
anonymous
torrent is the actual unmodified source code, and has not been
tampered with
in any way to sneak in subtle back doors or other issues, or that it's
the
final product with all the showstopper bugs fixed.
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