On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:36:10PM -0500, Michael Werneke wrote: > Straight from Sun to my Inbox comes the announcement of OpenSolaris. > I wonder what effects this will have on linux and vice versa. Sharing > of drivers, Sun's failover software...Linux might get a big boost from > this. > > --snip-- > > Today, Sun announced that the source code for the Solaris Operating > System--the most advanced operating system in the industry--will be > made available through its OpenSolaris program. This milestone opens > significant new opportunities for developers, customers, and partners. > Open source Solaris means that the world will have full, free of cost > access to the Solaris source code. Sun believes that the open source > model is the right one because it benefits our customers. Open source > means that our partners and customers will be able to more easily > customize Solaris to fit their needs. It means developers ouside of > Sun will be able to collaborate with our Solaris developers at Sun to > make this great operating system even better. >
Does anyone know what license this release is under, and if it's a FSF approved license? I'm not sure "full, free of cost access" is necessarily open source. Maybe it just means you can read it free. If Sun has opened its source, then those nice Sun goodies I keep hearing about can be incorporated in Linux. Otherwise, it means very little. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
