Shawn Walker wrote: > On Jan 20, 2008 4:53 PM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>> On Jan 20, 2008 10:06 AM, Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 20, 2008 3:46 PM, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> There is nothing that an updated indiana can do with respect to the >>>>> problem of building ON. >>>>> >>>>> The first most visible problem is in the Sun Studio tools, >>>>> specifically the package SUNWsprot which contains as(1). gas doesn't >>>>> work to build ON, and SUNWsprot's copy of as(1) is non-redistrib. and >>>>> therefore not in indiana >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That's really bad. >>>> Will this feature be supported in the coming March release? >>>> >>>> >>> I doubt it. Despite Jonathan Schwartz's promises over two years ago >>> now that "everything Sun does will be open source" -- unknown reasons >>> prevent the release of Sun Studio, even with the most basic >>> redistribution rights that we already have for other OpenSolaris >>> binary components. >>> >>> >> Aren't you assuming that Sun owns all of the intellectual property >> in the compilers? There is no conspiracy. >> > > I'm not assuming; hence why I said earlier: "for reasons unknown." > > However, since this is *Open*Solaris; I would expect a statement from > Sun letting us know why they have yet as been unable to fulfill their > CEO's promise. > > If Sun Studio was a "nice to have" component, I wouldn't care so much. > But the reality is that Sun Studio and OpenSolaris are "joined at the > hip." > > As such, it is reasonable to expect Sun to at the very least state why > it hasn't happened yet, what their plan is for it, or when it will > happen. > > Quite frankly, I'm not all that bothered so much by it not being open > source yet, as I have previously concluded that it must be for some > legal reasons. > > However, the fact remains that years after this project has launched, > we still don't have proper redistribution rights at the very least > that would allow OpenSolaris-based distributions to be self-hosting. > >
You've never dealt with lawyers before? ...be patient, lawyers don't work in internet time :-( -- richard _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
