Mark Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I simply meant that Debian's philosophy is that absolutely nothing
> _not_ free (read: not opensourced) gets intot the distro.  That's not

This is unfortunately not true. They e.g. publish a fork from my software that
has been changed to bne in conflict with the Copyright law. It may be that
it's the belief of many people at Debian....

> By the way, there are two ways to integrate into "OpenSolaris" today:
>
> 1) Port and go through ARC, then integrate manually but through the
> Sun process (sponsorship, etc), then end;

....
> GCC doesn't _have to_ go through ARC if it targets /contrib.  I'm not
> endorsing or suggesting that's a good thing, but that's the reality I
> see.
...
> And no, OpenSolaris.Org won't migrate to OpenSolaris.net.  There's so
> much more to the community than just Sun's distro -- it won't end when
> Solaris.Next ships in a more official capacity..

The bits from Indiana which may become Solaris.Next did not go through 
ARC either ;-)

Jörg

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