[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Joerg Schilling]

"W. Wayne Liauh" <wp at HawaiiLinux.us> wrote:

> > 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.

This is not a matter of license but a matter of being trustworthy with the 
claim that everything will be OSS in the near future.

The first implication of this claim is that Sun cannot add new closed source 
parts to the base OS which is the ON consolidation.

For this reason, I ask Sun to either opensource fwflash or to remove these new parts 
from ON and put them into an apropriate consolidation.

Jörg

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