[osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Never could have ever imagined that this was going to happen, but looks like it is: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp?kc =EWEWEMNL011507EP28A Nothing is certain yet (to my knowledge), but I know of at least two CAB

Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: 1. Deliver KDE3 to /usr/kde3/ and

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Darren J Moffat
Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: 1. Deliver KDE3

Re: [osol-discuss] ndi calls man page

2007-01-17 Thread James C. McPherson
kiran wrote: Could anyone please provide me the link for man pages for the ndi calls.. I also want to know under what circumstances does the ndi_devi_online fail?? Hi Kiran, as far as I can see, the ndi* calls are not documented in the manpages. I recall that they're mentioned in the Writing

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Jan Spitalnik
Stefan Teleman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 19:56, John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project +1. +1

[osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSola

2007-01-17 Thread Marc Glisse
1. Deliver KDE3 to /usr/kde3/ and reserve /usr/kde4/ for KDE version 4. Does it really make sense to spend much time on kde3 at this point? Copying the stuff that is already on solaris.kde.org is ok, but there probably should not be much more. I think it makes more sense to collaborate as

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread UNIX admin
QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into the ground on

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:49, Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 1/17/07, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 1/16/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it's well known that Sun has been involved in GPL v3 conversations all long, Java and OpenSPARC went out GPL v2, and GlassFish is GPLv2/CDDL. So if the company is actually considering v3 as an addition to CDDL for OpenSolaris, why not?

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 1/17/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we want to grow faster? It would enable that software to benefit from us, but not us to benefit from them, since any software we take in from another GPLv3

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bob Palowoda wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Never could have ever imagined that this was going to happen, but looks like it is: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp?kc =EWEWEMNL011507EP28A Nothing is certain yet (to my knowledge), but I know of at least

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: Those all sound

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread William James
On 1/17/07, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we want to grow faster? It would enable that software to benefit from us, but not us to benefit from them, since any software we take in from another GPLv3

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread William James
On 1/17/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Perhaps engineering resources that went into making OpenSolaris GCC-friendly would have been better spent porting SS10 to other platforms? Were I the manager that had the power to decide, I would have certainly pushed in that direction, not the other way around. The reasons those engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:20 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we want to grow faster? It would enable that software to benefit from us, but not us to benefit

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread James Carlson
William James writes: Those all sound like points for the kde project to discuss once it's established. There's no reason to constrain the project up front with them. It's better to discuss and define the scope of the project *NOW* instead of getting the response 'we don't take that'

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:20 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we want to grow faster? It would enable that software to benefit from us, but not

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
William James wrote: On 1/17/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/17/07, William James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/17/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Doug Scott
Perhaps engineering resources that went into making OpenSolaris GCC-friendly would have been better spent porting SS10 to other platforms? Were I the manager that had the power to decide, I would have certainly pushed in that direction, not the other way around. Sparc, and x86 are

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Right - as long as all code was dual licensed - the implication of Jim's statement was that dual-licensing our sources would allow us to benefit from other GPLv3 code, but if we did pull that in, it would be GPLv3-only and not dual licensed, and distros would have no choice on using it. But if

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:33 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:20 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't that benefit us? Don't we want to grow

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread george r smith
Why would Sun be so keen to pay people to port Solaris (which has a price tag = FREE) and help HP, IBM etc to sell their hardware? It would end up being Sun paying to port the code. HP and IBM selling the hardware, and HP and IBM getting support contracts for maintaining Solaris on HP and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: Perhaps engineering resources that went into making OpenSolaris GCC-friendly would have been better spent porting SS10 to other platforms? Were I the manager that had the power to decide, I would have certainly pushed in that direction, not the other way around. Both the

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread James Carlson
Ignacio Marambio Catán writes: I think you're confusing things being under the opensolaris umbrella does not necesary mean inclusion in the next solaris release. Sun is the main sponsor of opensolaris, just that.And i think it is a sun representative you have to talk to to push for kde's

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:53 -0800, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Erast Benson wrote: Even GPLv2 allows that. The key is to ship closed beastie separately, i.e. to download on package installation, ask EULA, etc.. How would one ship the closed bits of libc.so separately, given

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:33 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:20 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, there will be an enormous amount of software under v3 when it's done, so wouldn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Patrick Mauritz
george r smith wrote: My question is why isn't Sun keen in porting Eclipse to Solaris 10 (x86) and help those of us who bought Sun boxes. I know about Netbeans but do a search it is not used nearly as much as Ecliplse. Maybe because Eclipse isn't pure java (trademark or not), so the guards

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Damian Wojsław
+1 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSola

2007-01-17 Thread De Togni Giacomo
[i]Does it really make sense to spend much time on kde3 at this point? Copying the stuff that is already on solaris.kde.org is ok, but there probably should not be much more. I think it makes more sense to collaborate as much as possible with the main kde developers on making kde4 as portable

Re: [osol-discuss] Printable Many Page Solaris Manuals – Project Proposal

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Dave. Your project proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, David Lloyd wrote: http://www.adam.com.au/lloy0076/solaris/pmpsm.pdf Project Name The proposed name of the project is Printable Many Page Solaris

[osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Stephen Harpster
Sorry I've been late to respond to this thread. I'm in Atlanta for Sun Tech Days and my ability to hop online has been limited. There's been a lot of chatter about OpenSolaris dual-licensing with CDDL and GPLv3. As Rich Green points out in his most recent blog entry

Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Lowe
Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: 1. Deliver KDE3

[osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Nothing is certain yet (to my knowledge), but I know of at least two CAB members who have serious reservations about this idea. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Glynn Foster
John Weekley wrote: Too bad that there are certain segments within Sun who can't see their way to supporting KDE on a more official level and feel that it's a direct threat to JDS. As it has been mentioned elsewhere, it's very much a resource issue rather than 'direct threat' that you

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Russ LeBar
IMO KDE continues to outpace GNOME and I would love to see better support on Solaris! +1 -- Russ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right - as long as all code was dual licensed - the implication of Jim's statement was that dual-licensing our sources would allow us to benefit from other GPLv3 code, but if we did pull that in, it would be GPLv3-only and not dual licensed, and distros would have no

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Holger Berger
On 1/17/07, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need clarification please. Are John Sonnenschein and Roland Mainz co-owners of the KDE proposal now? I remember the day when it was considered 'impossible' to convince Sun to introduce ksh93 to Solaris and somehow Roland Mainz managed to get

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right - as long as all code was dual licensed - the implication of Jim's statement was that dual-licensing our sources would allow us to benefit from other GPLv3 code, but if we did pull that in, it would be GPLv3-only and not dual licensed, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/17/07, Stephen Harpster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I've been late to respond to this thread. I'm in Atlanta for Sun Tech Days and my ability to hop online has been limited. There's been a lot of chatter about OpenSolaris dual-licensing with CDDL and GPLv3. As Rich Green points out

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Martin Bochnig
Holger Berger wrote: Currently most of us consider it 'impossible' that KDE makes it into Solaris. I'd like to nominate Roland Mainz as project lead for the (Open)Solaris KDE project, maybe he can do the 'impossible' again. Holger A pity that SUNW didn't decide that way from the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: A pity that SUNW didn't decide that way from the beginning on (2002). It's such a waste of resources. GNOME was selected in 2000 for a variety of technical, licensing, community, and management reasons. Both GNOME KDE were fully considered, but GNOME was chosen as the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Martin Bochnig
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Solaris has two already - CDE GNOME. Okay. Plus all the unsupported WM's from the SFW-Companion_disk (plus from 3rd party repositories like CSW ... ). But my personal experience shows, that too few external people _know_ about those options. SUNW should make more

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Holger Berger wrote: On 1/17/07, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need clarification please. Are John Sonnenschein and Roland Mainz co-owners of the KDE proposal now? I remember the day when it was considered 'impossible' to convince Sun to introduce ksh93 to Solaris and somehow

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread John Weekley
Glynn Foster wrote: John Weekley wrote: Too bad that there are certain segments within Sun who can't see their way to supporting KDE on a more official level and feel that it's a direct threat to JDS. As it has been mentioned elsewhere, it's very much a resource issue rather than

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread David Lloyd
Joerg, The last time I did read the GPLv3 draft, it was not even clear to me whether GPLv3 really clearly allows a mix with other OSS licenses. It is clear to me that the GPL of various descriptions is a license to promote what the Free Software Foundation believes is software freedom; the

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Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal : OpenSolaris on extended partitions

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Pavan. Your project proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Pavan T C wrote: Hi, The aim of the project is to enable the installation and booting of OpenSolaris from an extended partition. This project will be delivered in