Look at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source
This page has been available since shortly after the launch in June 2005.
Some drivers were held back originally at launch simply because I ran
out of time. Some have been moved to usr/src; others are waiting for
resources.
We have continually and consistently said that we will open source all
the code we legally can. That is exactly what we're doing. And that
tells you why something is not available.
Re: the suggestion for a 'pending review' list. We can not do that. We
can only say either that something is coming when the only thing it's
waiting on is engineering resources or that we have no plans to open
source the associated code. Perhaps that's not good enough, but it's
the best we can do.
I will put it on my list to update the page listed above now that an
open source version of e1000g is available.
Bonnie
Erast Benson wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think what's most frustrating about the closed_bins is that we don't
know *why* in some cases. I t would be helpful if there were a status
list for the closed_bins that indicated what items would never be
available (due to 3rd party or something generic like that as reason),
which have a chance of being available at some unknown date (under review),
and which items will be available at some unknown date (in process).
We may make a list which says "pending review" (so that an e1000g release
does not surprise those working on cloning it) but in many cases we
can't even tell why we can't open the source.
This is a great idea, this way we could avoid double efforts.
Lawyers are funny that way.
no, that is fine.
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