That reads to me like the change of Sun Studio ever being a totally libre product is slim to none, not by any fault of Sun of course...
As long as we don't *depend* on Sun Studio as a community I see no problem with this. > On Jan 21, 2008 10:45 AM, Kuldip Oberoi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > This is the first statement I've seen from a Sun > representative that > clearly outlines the challenges faced in > redistributing Sun Studio. > > Thanks for responding, > -- > Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst > http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ > > "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is > even more so." - > Robert Orben > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-d > iscuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
