Thanks Bonnie! It would be nice to keep this page up-to-date.
Another concern which might need your attention is that some important links on www.opensolaris.org could not be resolved. I'm talking about PSARC descriptions like this: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/704/ Would be nice to address it too. Is that also legal-related issue? On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:46 -0700, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > 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. > > > -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
