# # CDDL HEADER START # # The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the # Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). # You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # # You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE # or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions # and limitations under the License. # # When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each # file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. # If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the # fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying # information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] # # CDDL HEADER END # # # Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. # OK, so you've got approval to integrate code, and you want to know how to properly communicate the license terms. What do you do next? 0. Determine whether your code should be covered by Oracle copyright, CDDL, and/or a third party license. If only Oracle copyright and/or CDDL, then skip to step 3. 1. Scan the source code and extract all of the third party licenses into one or more separate files. This information may be present in comments in source code, or may already be provided as separate files. For example, GPL license terms are often found in files named "COPYING." A. In general, you'll name these files "THIRDPARTYLICENSE," and you'll put one in each source directory (i.e. one per library, or one per command, or one per kernel module.) EXAMPLE: usr/src/uts/common/io/pcan/THIRDPARTYLICENSE If this file proves unmanageable, or you're adding licenses that really are independent of each other, you may instead create multiple "THIRDPARTYLICENSE.foo" files, where "foo" obviously corresponds to the license in question. EXAMPLE: usr/src/lib/libsmbfs/smb/THIRDPARTYLICENSE.* B. If you planned ahead and included graceful delimiters in your source code, the THIRDPARTYLICENSE files may actually be build targets in your Makefiles. EXAMPLE: usr/src/cmd/perl/Makefile If the corresponding copyright will change dates frequently, then this approach can work well, because you won't need to update the license files manually. If you do this, then your license file should be a dependency of both the all and install targets, and should be removed via clobber, usually by way of CLOBBERFILES. 2. Give each of the license files a corresponding ".descrip" file with a terse explanation of the contents. Something like "MJN DRIVER" or "PORTIONS OF ARCANE FUNCTIONALITY" is sufficient. EXAMPLE: usr/src/cmd/refer/THIRDPARTYLICENSE.descrip 3. Figure out which packages deliver objects that are built using the new source, and add license actions to the package manifest(s). A. It's extremely rare for a package NOT to include a Sun copyright and CDDL. If your package is one of the 99 percent that should have a Sun copyright and CDDL, then your package should have license actions like this: license lic_CDDL license=lic_CDDL license cr_Sun license=cr_Sun B. If your package delivers ONLY header files, and has multiple different copyrights or licenses, you can use license license_in_headers license=license_in_headers license path/to/most/common/copyright/file \ license=path/to/most/common/copyright/file license path/to/most/common/license/file \ license=path/to/most/common/license/file C. For your new license files, the path you use in your license actions should be relative to ${CODEMGR_WS}. D. Empty packages: if your package delivers nothing (or, more strictly speaking, nothing besides directories) you should include the Sun copyright but not the CDDL. E. As with any other action that is architecture dependent, license actions may be preceded by $(blah_ONLY), where "blah" corresponds to $(uname -p). If you don't add the appropriate license actions to package manifests, then your license and description files will show up as unreferenced in the build.