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

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