Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> bish at touchtelindia.net wrote:
>
>> Which all components of Navada or Belenix come under the
>> OpenSolaris 'binary' licence.
>
> SUN does not own full rights to some of the code in Solaris and thus
> cannot open-source
> it. Obviously replacement code needs to be written for these stuff
> so that those can be
> open-sourced. But that is the long-term work. A few of these are
> required components.
> So in the meantime to allow OpenSolaris distros to be able to build
> a bootable environment,
> these restricted components are distributed as binary-only
> components. These are only a
> few eg - Math library, a couple of other libs, a few commands, a few
> kernel modules.
> You can look at the "O/N Binary-Only Components, English" at
> http://www.genunix.org/mirror/index.html
>
> Some of it is actually a bit silly. Things like "od" (Octal Dump)
> are closed source because
> they contain source code derived from Microsoft's Xenix! Now how
> much effort does it take
> to rewrite od ? Probably the community can help out with this.
Why not maintain a page that mentions all those components that come
under the OpenSolaris Binary License. This will help the community to
develop their opensource counterparts.
Regards,
Libin Varghese.
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