[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 25 08:50:40 PDT 2008


Angad Singh wrote:
> 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

OpenSolaris ships Xorg instead of Xsun.   Xsun is being removed from
Solaris - it's our old server, with third-party code in that we can't
release, and which has less functionality and fewer drivers than Xorg.

> * TrueType font engine for Xorg server

That was replaced last year with the open source FreeType2 font engine
instead.   (It was third party code we couldn't release.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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