russell wrote:
> With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are
> being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris?
For the ones that are either open source or redistributable, I don't see
why not.
> If these drivers can be captured to maintain the existing hardware support,
> then going forward if the community edition is fully GPL compliant then
> porting GPL drivers would provide a broader set of hardware.
The community edition can only be "fully GPL compliant" if the community
rewrites the kernel, at which point it's really a new OS, not a community
distro. The community can't change the license terms for the code Oracle
owns/releases from CDDL to GPL.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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