> Martin Bochnig wrote: > > It would be really nice if I could redistribute the closed /dev/fb > driver for those older chipsets. > > Even just in binary form would absolutely be enough. > > I asked the SPARC team to allow binary redistribution of their > drivers a year ago, and last I heard they still hadn't gotten > around to deciding on it. I've tried to explain that they're just > continuing to push all OpenSolaris distros/users away from SPARC, > but they just don't seem to care. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Good! I finally realize now, that we both are fighting for the same open vision: Open__Solaris. ### Having a redistributable DLJ-"distros-jdk" available, which necessarily depends on (apparently) non-redistributable SUNWspro-shared C++ libs, is another such problem. It's really annoying that I have to force LiveDVD-users to download them on the fly first (automatically/script-driven), before they are able to run anything from the distros-jdk (or anything else, that had been built with SUNW's cc). Is a non-commercial distributor (like myself) allowed to ship them, or rather not? I really do not want to violate any license. I might initiate a new thread for that topic, depending on the replies here. I had been asking many people (and even two CAB members, one other distributor), but never got a concrete answer. The SUNWspro license seems to prohibit this, in full contradiction to the DLJ's paragraph of "being required to stay compatible [...] with it ..." I also sent a message to the java-distro team a month ago (no response so far). Does anybody know this for sure? Am I allowed to redistribute those /usr/libC* libs YES [ ] NO [ ] ? The Belenix creators published their view: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/ "As above JDK 1.5 has been included in the CD. However due to a licensing issue with a required SUN Studio C++ runtime library it is currently an installable bundle and does not execute off the LiveCD. This is expected to be resolved soon. The JDK bundle gets installed once BeleniX gets installed to harddisk. The required LibC patch is also downloaded and installed automatically if you have a network conection." Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
