[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Discussion: OGB Reorg and New Webapp Issues

[Alan DuBoff]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Keith Bierman wrote:

> Sort of like ubuntu's main, restricted, universe and multiverse?

Yes, exactly like.

> I agree, as far as I know, there's nothing that says I can't download GPL2, 
> GPL3, CDDL and BSD projects and run them on my system. There may be 
> restrictions on how I merge the source trees ;> but that seems to be a 
> different question than where/what/who the repository is.

The couple points that need to be considered.

The repository would need to be on a server that has no ties to Sun in any 
way whatsoever.

> Indeed, and while IANAL, I don't know of any reason why Sun can't make 
> it easy. Liberate those outside to create IPS repositories, and make IPS 
> easy (hopefully trivial) to configure so that it will search "all" 
> repositories making it look like there's a single giant repository in 
> the cloud to the casual observer (so yeah, I'd default it to search all 
> known repositories, irrespective of license .. unless the user takes 
> some action).

I would want to make it so they need to add it into their repository, so 
that it couldn't be said that Sun distributed a system that used them by 
default.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group