russell <[email protected]> wrote: > With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are > being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris? 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.
Linux drivers usually don't help even if you could take the code. There are two problems: The driver interface from linux differs much more than the one from FreeBSD. The GPL is a license that does not actively support collaboration, mostly because it is missinterpreted by many people. I don't believe your proposal will help OpenSolaris, so let us try to avoid a discussion that will not cause technical results but has a high chance for freating a political thread. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
