OpenJDK Community Bylaws: Second Public Draft

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/01/2011 11:10 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:51 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> The second public draft of the OpenJDK Community Bylaws is now
>> available [1], with an accompanying Q&A document [2].
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-09
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/qanda.html
> 
> Thanks for the changes made. Most look positive and well thought
> out. This draft is certainly an improvement over the previous one.
> There was just one change that is a step backwards.
> 
> gb-members can no longer be just participants, but need to be
> contributors. Contributors are in this draft still defined as being
> those who assign all their rights to Oracle. Does Oracle really need
> the rights to re-license the gb-board minutes to other companies so
> they can make closed and proprietary derivatives of the documented
> processes of the community?

I'm not sure I really understand this objection.  Surely you can't be
an OpenJDK contributor unless you have signed the OCA.  So, the only
way that you could be a member of the governing board and not have
signed the OCA would be to be a non-participant: someone who does not
work on OpenJDK.  Do we actually want people who don't work on OpenJDK
on the GB?

Andrew.