Alan Coopersmith wrote:
James C. McPherson wrote:
2) why don't Sun provide a torrent?
Some of the third-party software in Solaris requires certain
agreements be made with those who redistribute. BitTorrent
could be seen as allowing redistribution by people who haven't
agreed to those license terms. If we someday made a separate
OpenSolaris distro consisting of just those parts that are
open source or allow redistribution under a license like the
OpenSolaris binary license, that could be torrentable, or if
we finally removed all the affected software from Solaris.
what if you send it as aes encrypted file (or openpgp, or whatever) via
torrent and provide the key in the download center.
the torrent file is utterly useless without the key, and the key needs
the license sign-off, but is tiny. this mechanism would still provide
working load balancing beyond whatever sun could ever provide.
patrick georgi
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