Garrett D'Amore wrote: >I will certainly ask for 3DLabs to release their interest in _all_ of >the drivers that Sun has developed for their hardware. I don't think >that will be hard to get. > >
Good! >It will still be, for better or worse, up to _Sun_ to release that >information. I don't have sources for _any_ of the 3DLabs products. > >But, then again, all along, Sun could _easily_ have open sourced the >code for ffb, afb, and ffb2. I am not sure what Sun's excuse for >holding _those_ sources confidential is. > > -- Garrett > > That is always the question. It took SUNW 15 months to make SUNWspro's libC* files just re-distributable, no mention of making them open src under whatever license. Then I found out, that I actually could have redistributed those files all the time, but nobody at SUNW appeared to know that in advance. See http://www.mail-archive.com/opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org/msg13457.html . -- Martin
