James Carlson wrote:
> Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> I've been contemplating setting up a community repo that could
>>> reintegrate some of the platform support that is being removed from ON
>>> proper, into a separate "legacy" consolidation, that would not be
>>> supported by Sun.
>> I think that this would be an interesting and valuable thing to be done.
>> A place to put legacy code that can be maintained (and supported...)
>> by the folks interested.
>
> Interesting and valuable if it can be done.
>
> This isn't the first time such a thing has been discussed, and in the
> previous runs at the problem, the real issue is not the mechanics of
> setting up and maintaining a separate gate, but rather that 99 and
> 44/100ths of the effort is actually a legal review to determine what --
> if anything at all -- can be released, and under what terms.
Is that really an issue though for code that's already in the open ON gate,
but which Sun no longer wants to support? Presumably all that legal review
happened for the ON gate publication. (For the graphics drivers, sure,
you're not going to see us release the source to the drivers that aren't
already open, which means pretty much just cg6. But there's a lot of other
devices on the old Ultra workstations besides just graphics.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
