I would doubt Oracle would continue to let licensed binary bits of Solaris be a 
continued part of an open source project.  Likely those binary bits would have 
to be recoded and not contain any Sun copyrighted code.  A large part of the 
source code is still known only to Sun.

The binary license was also changed on 1/27/2010, the date Oracle officially 
acquired Sun.

I also still fail to see the reason for OpenSolaris.  Solaris 10 was developed 
when Solaris 9 was released, and they didn't need a development branch for 
Solaris 10.  Really, I don't see why Oracle would spend tens of millions on 
Sparc/Solaris and spend tens of millions on OpenSolaris.  Only to turn around 
and spend millions more to make OpenSolaris the new Solaris 11.
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