Oracle Contributor Agreement FAQ?
Peter B. Kessler
Peter.B.Kessler at Oracle.COM
Thu Jul 14 21:09:20 UTC 2011
Thanks for looking into this. People are allowed to take vacations!
I have a suggestion for the FAQ, if someone is updating it: a pointer to the list of Contributor Agreeement signatories[1]. That might be of interest to people considering signing the OCA. I don't know if it's "frequently asked" for, but it came up on this mailing list just today, as the second (as yet unanswered) question from Henri Gomez.
... peter
[1] http://sca.java.net/CA_signatories.htm
Donald Smith wrote:
> Peter!!!
>
> I am very sorry for not responding sooner. I was out on vacation, took
> the action to respond and then didn't get back to you.
>
> The good news is that we're almost ready to address all these issues.
> The FAQ is currently being updated, as is the OCA itself. I'll ask that
> we put a small disclaimer on the links that it's out of date, but should
> be updated around Aug 1.
>
> - Don
>
> On 07/07/2011 2:51 PM, Peter B. Kessler wrote:
>> The OpenJDK legal page[1] contain a reference to (a copy of?) the
>> Oracle Contributor Agreement[2] (cf. the more central OCA[3]?).
>>
>> The OpenJDK legal page also refers to a FAQ for the OCA[4] which might
>> be same as the more central FAQ[5].
>>
>> By either path, the OCA FAQ contains a bunch of links that are broken:
>>
>> - Page 5, the "feedback through email" link points to some place on
>> www.sun.com that bounces to a generic Oracle and Sun page[6].
>> - Page 5, there is a link that says it points to version 1.5 ("in
>> the interest of transparency"), but which in fact points to the
>> current version[3], and there claim to be links to versions 1.3[7] and
>> 1.4[8], neither of which can be found on the oss.oracle.com web site.
>> - Page 1 has a link to a different OCA for use by the US
>> Government[9], which can't be found.
>>
>> What would it take to bring these documents up to date?
>>
>> ... peter
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/oca.pdf
>> [3] http://oss.oracle.com/oca.pdf
>> (which redirects to
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oca-405177.pdf?)
>> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/oca-faq.pdf
>> [5] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oca-faq-405384.pdf
>> [6] http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm
>> [7] http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.3.pdf
>> [8] http://oss.oracle.com/oca-1.4.pdf
>> [9] http://oss.oracle.com/government-oca.pdf
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