"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On 12/11/2007, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > If we are going to endorse a distro as our reference or blessed or whatever
> > distro, what are the requirements it has to meet?
> >
> > Here's a list of ones I can think of to start discussing from:
> >
> > 1) 100% Open Source: The OpenSolaris Constitution, as approved by the
> > voting members of the community and the Solaris management at Sun,
> > requires:
> >
> > All software produced by the OpenSolaris Community shall be
> > licensed to the public free of charge under one or more open
> > source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
>
> I don't think that 100% open source should be a requirement.
> Otherwise, it might be a very long time before we get somewhere. Not
We could step a bit back by this requirement that would still be OK:
- 100% self hosting
- enough parts are OpenSource to allow a port to a new platform
with a currently not supported CPU.
J?rg
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