Anon Y Mous wrote:
> Is the root cause of the problem that SUNWmfrun contains some kind of
> cryptography module that can't be exported under U.S. laws or is it more of
> an issue with a third-party company that owns intellectual property or part
> of the code that prevents free re-distribution?
No cryptography, just third party licenses. The issues are resolved and
the package is freely available and redistributable now (in binary form
only, sorry, not open source), which is why I said you could get it from
the /dev repo since the recent build 110 update a couple weeks ago.
> Also, does flar create not work well with the ZFS version used in 2008.11 and
> that's why it's not in there? Or is flar supposed to be replaced by some
> feature in ZFS? Or is the flar code owned by a third party that won't allow
> free redistribution of it? I haven't heard any hints from anybody at Sun yet
> as to why it's impossible to have a flash archive package for Indiana.
> If someone were to say, find the source code for flarcreate and try to build
> it on Indiana, do you think it would work?
Sorry - I don't know anything about flar or flash archives - never used them
or worked on them.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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