David Comay wrote: >I don't know the answer about redistributing libC* but have you brought up the >DLJ question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the appropriate forum > >http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=94 > >I'll make some inqueries myself but the DLJ folks might know the answer and >certainly would want to know about issues which prevent the license from being >used by other distributions. > >
Hi Dave, they are well aware of it, according to the Belenix guys. They do know the issue and say "it's being worked on" since Mai, when the DLJ had been released initially. I also sent my request to the DLJ e-mail address, as early as in June. But you are right, it seems to be a good idea to also start a public discussion directly there, at http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=94 Then, why did I post it to opensol-discuss at all? Because of several reasons, including: * I didn't find a legal affairs ML on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ * It affects OpenSolaris and therefore also this very list * I have to admit, that I expected more people to burn their fingers on this topic and to give me a response, if not a precise action plan ! But whole masses fight each other in a personalized CDDL war, though no one appears to see the true dilemma of the /usr/lib/libC* thing. I mean: Something like that should not happen ! It is too stupid. Solaris is more and more open source (CDDL), T1 is open, even the amazing sun4v simulator from opensparc is now open source since last week (GPL !) PLUS: Even the since then *holy* and completely unavailable OpenBootProm ieee1275 firmware is open source (BSD license ! ) since last week. All that is totally _GREAT_. It is like swimming transatlantic left alone in the water, say from Barcelona to New York. But then dramatically going under only 10 feet before reaching Amerikan soil. I call it "being drowned in the DLJ versus /usr/lib/libC* issue drifts, only ten feet before reaching the GOAL of a truly open thing, on which a usable distro can be based on". You request me to post that matter elsewhere, rather than here? Aren't there enough high-ranking people reading this list?? I think there are. But ignoring an inconvenient topic is certainly the easiest approach. The lawyers responsible for that whole issue have produced something, that I don't call a "solution". And they certainly wasted lots of SUNW's resources for it. But it is unusable by its targetted audience: OpenSolaris Distributors. :-( Don't be afraid, I will not post it again. I don't see anybody's willingness (except from you), to improve the situation. My conclusion is, to strongly dissuade from using SUNW's CLOSED ""open"" compilers. One then does not depend on those libs. 50% execution speed performance is better, than 0%, believe me. -- Martin Bochnig _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
