I have been involved with Hudson from very early days and I think my first post to Hudson's user mailing list was in early 2007 and I even wrote a little portlet that aggregated data from Hudson. I am not a kind of guy who tries to get his head around copyright issues and different OSS licenses but I always understood that
- Hudson started as Kohsuke Kawaguchi's pet project and he worked on top of his regular day job
- Kohsuke did and still does an awesome job of being involved with community and as a result got several committers and plugin developers
- Hudson got popular enough that Sun thought it deserved Kohsuke's full attention and they also started selling support for it.
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Remember, Kohsuke was also employed full time by Sun to work on Hudson for a good couple of years, so that means Sun owned some of the intellectual property.
Oracle acquired Sun, as a business, Oracle will assert that IP ownership aggresively. Oracle doesn't get to the Oracle today by having your way of thinking.
I agree that Ted Farrel / Oracle's way of dealing with the community was awful, but as a business, CloudBees / InfraDNA also needs Oracle and a healthy Hudson brand.
I understand the business part. But Hudson is not something that was baked inside Sun or Oracle and it's not a typical close source product so it should not be treated as such.
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