On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Rainer Orth wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith writes: >>> Rainer Orth wrote: >>>> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> writes: >>>> >>>>> I never said you were not allowed to run it. ? Sun is not allowed to make >>>>> the current Xsun server available as a freely redistributable download, >>>>> which is what's required for inclusion in OpenSolaris or the OpenSolaris >>>>> IPS repository. ? The exact contract terms are confidential. >>>> But such packages could go into the extra repository instead, right? >>> Unfortunately, I don't believe the contract allows that either. >> >> Strange: you are allowed to provide SX:CE iso images with that stuff for >> registered downloads, but registered download from the extra repository is >> forbidden? ?Lawyers ;-( > > Unfortunately, contracts signed in the 1990's did not foresee the future of > internet enabled package repositories or that we might someday want to > distribute Xsun as a separate package instead of a core part of the OS. > > If I had reason to believe someone was actually interested in doing the work,
Alan: What kind of question is this??? We discussed about it starting in 2006 ... --- Martin Bochnig > I could release most of the sources to the Xsun binary itself - possibly even > all of them (I haven't checked yet) - to make it usable, someone would have to > port them to work with the current libXfont (which in the Xsun builds is > called > libfont.so, but that's trivial to fix). ? ?That also only covers the core > server > ?- I could even throw in the cg6 driver source, since that's already published > as the Xsun reference driver source - all the other drivers would still be the > closed binary blobs you have today. ? The biggest differences between that and > the Sun-shipped Xsun would be change of the TrueType & Postscript font > renderers > from the encumbered versions to the FreeType code that Xorg uses, and the lack > of the Display Postscript extension. > > Sun wouldn't support it or ship it in our repos, but I don't see why a > dis-encumbered version couldn't go into /contrib, though porting to a spec > file for source juicer could be fun. > > -- > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ? ? ? ? Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >
