Ben Rockwood wrote:
The problem with supplying one number (a percentage in this case) is thats all they want and all they need. No explanation will be read, by and large. We'd just be setting ourselves up to look bad. When that percentage hits 100% I'll feel diffrent, but even "Solaris is 98% Open Source!" looks bad when your looking for something to harp on.
This has nothing to do with any marketing official or otherwise and 98% in this case would be wonderful. As best as I can tell 90% would be good enough.
Okay now that I've had some great suggestions on how to do this I'm going to say what it is for.
This is all about US export approval. Solaris 10 has had things done to the crypto framework (pluggable only with signed binaries) and to IPsec's use of it (only allows certain "types" of hardware crypto) that I really wish we didn't have to carry forward to Solaris 11. RedHat and SuSE don't have to do this silly things because they were open source operating systems. Solaris 10 is not. Solaris 11 will be <insertnumberhere>% of open source. If that %age is high enough then I believe that Sun will be able to convince the US government that we don't need to have those control points anymore in the Solaris binary product. This will indirectly help some OpenSolaris distros as it helps with a current binary only problem of the crypto framework plugs even though all the source is out there already.
Thanks for all the input. I'm going to try out a few of the suggestions people gave. This will also have the interesting side effect that I should end up with a full list of packages that have some or only closed source bits in them.
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