## The Grid Engine Source License

### The Sun Industry Standards Source License

The source code for Grid Engine has been released to the open source community under the Sun Industry Standards Source License. This license is recognized as a free and open license by The Free Software Foundation and The Open Source Initiative (OSI). With this license, developers may modify and distribute source code and derived binaries freely. Furthermore, developers can choose to keep their modifications confidential or make them public. This allows commercial vendors to integrate and extend the technology covered under the license into their products without the need to disclose their proprietary implementations.

The Sun Industry Standards License is further designed to encourage and support the development of industry standards through the open community-development process. The license has requirements designed to discourage divergence from the standard(s) referenced in the license. If developers deviate from the standard(s) and desire to license their implementation to others, they may do so but they must declare their deviation from the standard(s) through a public description and a public reference implementation of those deviations.

These license features support the Grid Engine project objectives to facilitate a strong base of Grid Engine users and independent providers, the development of standard APIs and protocols, and the interoperability of Grid Engine implementations from all participants in the project.

### Contributing Code to Grid Engine

Any developer who wishes to become a Contributor, Committer, Module Owner or Project Owner -- in that he or she wishes to contribute new code to the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) tree -- must also sign a Contributor Agreement. This agreement states that to your knowledge, the code you've submitted was developed by you, and that you have authority to provide it and any related IP to the Grid Engine project. This IP license protects the contributor and all participants in the project.

### Respect For Copyright Ownership and Law

Distributed computing technologies have created opportunities for innovative use of programs and data. Although Sun cannot universally prevent, control, monitor or record the activities of users of Grid Engine technology, Sun strongly adheres to an overriding principle requiring the highest level of respect for the rights and property of copyright owners, including Sun, as paramount to the passion to collaborate and develop new technologies. All users and participants in this Grid Engine project are reminded to comply with applicable law and regulation, the Grid Engine license, Terms of Use, and these Guiding Principles concerning any use of copyrighted materials. In this regard, Sun maintains that development which makes it easier to create new products and services can be provided without infringing the intellectual property rights of others.