Hi Yuan,

I tried to install the tools on my systems. Comparing to the internal
version, it's harder to install the open source version. Could this be
made more automated?

--Lucy

yf206721 wrote:
> James Carlson 写道:
>> yf206721 writes:
>>   
>>> Netperf does not belong to SUN,so we can't open source and deliver it.
>>>     
>> I don't understand.
>>
>> Netperf *IS* open source.  Sun doesn't have to do anything in order to
>> cause it to be open source.  Rick Jones at HP has been maintaining
>> this useful tool for years and graciously keeping it functional on
>> Solaris and testing it on our platforms all that time.
>>
>>   
> Hi James
> Yeah,netperf is a open source software.
> But the OSR(open source review) number for netperf is internal use only.
> can not distribution outside of Sun for any purpose.
> 
> The OSR number for netperf is #3124
> you can review it at this link
> https://opensourcereview.central.sun.com
> thanks
> -yuan.fan
>>   http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html
>>
>> He's even tried testing new adapters and new Sun platforms, even
>> though he works for HP.  I think you'd have to look hard to find
>> someone working at a competitor's shop who is more positive about Sun.
>>
>> Sun *regularly* delivers software that it doesn't own.  That's what
>> the SFW consolidation is all about.  Heck, it's what *Solaris* is all
>> about -- we certainly didn't write all of this stuff ourselves.
>>
>> My guess here would be that someone at Sun might be overly concerned
>> with the implications of the "non-commercial purposes only" phrase in
>> this license:
>>
>>   
>> http://www.netperf.org/netperf/training/Netperf.html#0.2.2Z141Z1.SUJSTF.6R2DBD.2
>>
>> Rather than delivering non-functional software, which seems like a
>> pointless exercise to me, let's figure out how to get a working copy
>> of netperf into one of the freeware repositories and delivered in an
>> easily usable form.
>>
>>   
>> I've dealt with Rick Jones in the past, and he's an *extremely*
>> helpful guy.  Drop him a line and tell him you'd like to have our
>> lawyers and HP's do lunch sometime.
>>
>>   
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