Oracle Contributor Agreement FAQ?

[Peter B. Kessler]

Yes.  Sorry.  I saw Mark's mail just after I clicked "Send" on my mail.

			... peter

Donald Smith wrote:
> Now you're just trying to rub salt in my clown-nosed wounds :).  That is 
> the list that I thought I saw in Henri's email - this is not current and 
> will not be kept current, per the thread, for regional privacy reasons.
> 
>  - Don
> 
> On 14/07/2011 5:09 PM, Peter B. Kessler wrote:
>> 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