[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Angad Singh" <angadsingh007 at gmail.com> wrote:


> At present, Opensolaris is a+b+c which none of the Linux distros are.
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ mentions the following
> which are currently not available as source (some which are not even
> planned to be made available as source):
> * Xsun server
> * TrueType font engine for Xorg server
> * Man pages

The bad news is that there is even new software in ON that is neither
OSS nor available in binary redistributable form. Check e.g.

/usr/lib/fwflash/verify/ses-SUN.so 
/usr/lib/fwflash/verify/tavor-MELLANOX.so 
/usr/lib/fwflash/identify/tavor.so

which have been recently added.

I thought that the plan is to make everything OSS. How then could new closed 
and even non redistributable parts be added?

Jörg

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