Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Gueven Bay wrote: >> >> [...] >> NOTE: The patches are anonymously available to any nastiest persons in >> the world, without any kind of authorization! >> So where is the "legal difference" ?? >> > > > From the little that I know of legal terms, the "Right To Use" and > "Right To Re-distribute" are distinct. "Right To Use" applies to the > current SUN Studio software while "Right To Re-distribute" is > restricted to a few binaries. > > Regards, > Moinak.
Yes, RTU versus "RTD". However, quite a few external sites _are_ allowed to redistribute SUNW's patches. Even including the bins we are discussing about: http://www.google.com/search?q=119964-07&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N Completely external sites like http://ftp.us.xemacs.org/ftp/tigerd1/patches/current_signed/ or even http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.sun.co.uk/patchroot/current_unsigned/119601-06.README . They all _do_ redistribute those patches (and therefore bins and libs). Why are they allowed to? Do they have a special agreement? Or is it something different legally to redistribute a "patch"? Or may even be, all those sites are violating SUNW's legal terms? I just wonder. FURTHER: Why not just giving _us_ distributors a special agreement, i.e. that allowed *us*, and only us, to redistribute those libs. Maybe we could offer special limited 3rd-party-redistributable versions of our distros (without those files, our current releases), as well as un-redistributable flavours that have the files on DVD, but cannot legally be redistributed by external 3rd parties. I mean: Our own distributions (at least your Belenix - and mine) can only be downloaded currently from a SUNW-funded site (if I understood that correctly, genunix is a SUNW paid site, but not sure) . That means, they actually are not even offered externally: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_home.html http://www.genunix.org/distributions//martux/marTux_0.2/ (http://www.martux.org only contains the links, not the content) Where is the problem? I do not understand these lawyers . Okay, everyone in the free world is required to do what they say (which is good to a certain extent). But not necessarily the full 100% of their decisions are always 100.00% correct? I don't know. Anyways: SUNW is finally working on it, and our download-workaround works better-than-nothing. I will stop making noise now. And wait y.another month. Thanks to everyone from SUNW and elsewhere, who has offered to help :-) Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
