Martin Bochnig writes: > Are you afraid of publically being expected to opensource all your (mostly > eol'ed) gfx drivers?
If by "afraid" you mean "know that we'll be doing something illegal," then perhaps that's a partly reasonable interpretation. I think you're at least underestimating the amount of effort required to scour our ~20 year history to get the legal pedigree right. In order to release things as open source, we cannot just slap a sticker on the front and say "good to go." That's why there's a roadmap: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ and that's also why some things (regrettably) will just never be open source. In general, it's because the actual owner of those things prohibits that sort of release (and in some cases also prevents us from even talking about it). In other cases, it's just time and effort. Again, a large amount of work has to go into that legal drudgery. It's not just blind fear, though, nor is it malice. Looking at the staggering amount of code we've been able to release so far, I'm a bit baffled how anyone could even begin to think that we're holding back out of spite. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
