We currently do not have all the rights to allow redistribution of Sun Studio. 

With many millions of lines of code developed over the past 2 decades, we have 
developed,  partnered, and licensed, etc. to provide the best toolchain as 
possible for our users. Since transitioning from a paid to free product 2 years 
ago, we have balanced priorities of additional features (Intel/AMD/SPARC 
optimizations, tools for MT/multicore development, new IDE, etc.) with those 
needed by the open source communities (OpenSolaris, OpenJDK, etc.)

Our goal is to enable Sun Studio to be used in the OpenSolaris project and 
other open source communities. We recognize that identifying and removing legal 
encumbrances, allowing a redistributable version of Sun Studio, would not only 
further this goal along, but be a major milestone towards Sun's open source 
strategy. Project Indiana, with its repositories, provides a great opportunity 
for OpenSolaris and we want to participate as fully as possible.

/kso
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