[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/7/3 Joerg Schilling
> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> > > I thought that the plan is to make everything
> OSS.
> >
> > Everything that belongs to Sun. As Casper pointed
> out, Sun doesn't own
> > everything they need for systems.
> >
> > That's probably going to be true for a long time
> for almost any
> > computer manufacturer.
> 
> In this case, it is obviously something that
> definitely does not belong into
> ON. 
> 
> It this is software from/for other vendors, then make
> surre the software is 
> where it belongs: in /opt/<company>/...
> 
> Jörg
> 

Under the CDDL, I am sure you know better than I, not everything needs to be open sourced.  Of course, the goal is always to try to be as open as practicable.
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