From: Kristian Nielsen
Date: September 16 2009 10:06am
Subject: Re: Contribution: Fix for BUG#42742
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Masood Mortazavi <masoodmortazavi@stripped> writes:

> The SCA is clear that when SCA signatories post to Sun sponsored
> discussion lists such as MySQL internals and bugs db, such posts are
> contributions under the SCA.  At the same time, you always have the
> freedom of posting somewhere else if you do not want your material to
> be treated as a contribution.

Giuseppe Maxia <Giuseppe.Maxia@stripped> writes:

> Theoretically, it shouldn't be any problem, from what AskMonty says about
> the SCA.

Just to make things clear: the particular problem in this case with the SCA is
that the _contributer_ does not feel that the SCA is sufficiently clear about
limiting the scope of exactly which development related to MySQL is
contributed to Sun and which is not.

This is the reason that the MCA adds an explicit clarification:

  "Each submission must explicitly be marked that it's donated under the MCA."

Now, in general I see other serious problems with both the SCA and MCA, and I
do not really feel like defending either of them. But for this (and similar)
small contributions, a clarification of the above point would greatly improve
the attractiveness of contributing under the SCA.

Hope this helps,

 - Kristian.