"OpenSolaris is community code. We're not going to do any major changes without
talking first with the community. (That's you. :-))"
- Stephen Harpster, replying to rumours that OpenSolaris
would be dual licensed under GPLv3
==
> Alan Coopersmith announced [1] the latest source update for the X
> consolidation,
> including notable changes with the addition of DTrace probes for Xorg, and a
> number of module updates for Xorg 7.x preparation. He noted that the keytables
> and XKB data files are now delivered by the globalization consolidation.
>
> 1.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-January/000869.html
>
> Derek Cicero announced [2] that Solaris Express Community release build 55 is
> now available.
>
> 2.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-January/000871.html
>
> Stephen Hahn sponsored [3] 2007/047 /usr/gnu, a proposal to create a new
> directory
> hierarchy, to contain otherwise-name-conflicting GNU utilities under their
> original
> names. In conjunction with this, he posted proposals for GNU coreutils [4][5]
> and
> GNU which [6] as likely sample ARC cases for the other GNU utilities.
>
> 3.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000884.html
> 4.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000886.html
> 5.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000887.html
> 6.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000888.html
>
> Stephen Harpster proposed [7] to extend the term of the current OGB through to
> the end of March 2007, to oversee the upcoming constitution vote and OGB
> election.
> Stephen Hahn followed up [8] with a proposed schedule for the elections.
>
> 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001393.html
> 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001396.html
>
> Doug Scott forwarded [9] an announcement from Fluendo for those people
> interested in playing video's on Solaris, allowing the availability of a
> number
> of widely used multimedia codecs for use in the GStreamer framework.
>
> 9.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-January/005014.html
>
> Stephen Lau reported [10] that the ON Teamware/Mercurial bridge failed during
> the dboot putback, noting that he would try and get it online Monday,
> detailing
> the cause of the failure [11].
>
> 10.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2007-January/003242.html
> 11.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2007-January/003253.html
>
> John Sonnenschein proposed [12] a project for collaborating on a KDE based
> desktop for OpenSolaris. Roland Mainz followed up [13] with a refined proposal
> for the delivery.
>
> 12.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023342.html
> 13.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023384.html
>
> Wayne Liauh posted [14] a link to eweek discussing the possibility of dual
> licensing OpenSolaris under the GPLv3. Stephen Harpster followed up [15]
> saying
> that any possible move would first be discussed at length in the community,
> and
> would very much depend on a final release of the GPLv3.
>
> 14.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023308.html
> 15.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023424.html
>
> David Lloyd proposed [16] a new project for printable many page Solaris
> manuals,
> to create a set of one to five page printable Solaris manuals to cover
> different
> aspects of use and/or administration in both server and desktop operating
> system
> environments.
>
> 16.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023245.html
>
> Pavan Chandrahekar proposed [17] a new project, OpenSolaris on extended
> partitions,
> mentioning that the first phase had mostly been completed and was pending code
> and ARC review.
>
> 17.
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023283.html
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