James Carlson wrote: > It's a very different wasteland from LU. LU is stuck because of > licensing issues. We don't own it sufficiently that we can put it > under an open license. It doesn't really matter whether we throw > resources at it, or if it's good or bad for OpenSolaris; we just can't > legally do it. What would help in that case is a project to _replace_ > LU with something different -- either a new installer/upgrade tool (as > in Caiman) or a clean-room implementation of LU (any takers?). > > That's quite a different thing than patching, which, as I said before, > appears to me to be fairly useless for OpenSolaris participants. It'd > be a little like doing the work to hand over the source for "asppp." > > As for Flash, I don't quite know what's going on there. I assume it's > "just" a resource issue. Not at all a good excuse, I know. I think > that's a much more worthwhile thing to get vetted and released. >
Actually, Flash is stuck exactly as LU is, for exactly the same licensing reasons. Thanks, Eric -- Eric J. Ray Software Engineering Manager Solaris Install Sun Microsystems 303-223-7843 (direct)/x81067 eric.ray at sun.com
