I am (literally) at war over at the India Linux Users Group Delhi List regarding solaris being a completely free and open source operating system, and would highly appreciate it if someone could provide me with some solid points to address these questions regarding OpenSolaris and Belenix.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sandip Bhattacharya <li...@sandipb.net> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org> +++ Angad Singh [18/06/08 12:17 +0530]: >Belenix is a LiveCD distribution of OpenSolaris created by the indian >opensolaris community - bangalore opensolaris user group (BOSUG). Angad, What is the current licensing state of Opensolaris? Is it entirely open sourced? This is from Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris): The opening of the Solaris source code has been an incremental process. The first part of the Solaris codebase to be open sourced was the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility (commonly known as DTrace), a tracing tool for administrators and developers that aids in tuning a system for optimum performance and utilisation. DTrace was released on January 25, 2005. At that time, Sun also released the first phase of the opensolaris.org web site, announced that the OpenSolaris code base would be released under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), and announced the intent to form a Community Advisory Board (CAB). The opening day launch, in which the bulk of the Solaris system code was released, was June 14, 2005. There remains some system code that is not open sourced, and is available only as binary files. The OpenSolaris source code represents the code in the most recent development build of Solaris. Is part of the distribution still just binary? Any roadmap when it is going to be completely open sourced? Also am curious about this part from your FAQ: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#whatis Below are key OpenSolaris-related technologies: OpenSolaris Source Code: This is the source base for open development. It consists of several components called consolidations. See the downloads page for the technologies released and the roadmap for future releases. At present, the OpenSolaris source base is not enough to bootstrap an entire system, so developers start by downloading an OpenSolaris distribution and installing the OpenSolaris bits on top. It seems that even man pages of OpenSolaris are not available for redistribution yet. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ#Where_are_the_Man_Pages_.3F Given these constraints how does OpenSolaris/Belenix qualify to be called a "Free" unix distribution? Please note that I am not in any way belittling the contribution of the Belenix team. I admire their contribution to develop community based software. My questions are directed only at the OpenSolaris project. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Angad Singh http://angadsingh.in http://blogs.sun.com/angad "The best way to predict future is to invent it" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080618/8256402e/attachment.html>
