[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source

[Dave Miner]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
...
> Let me add an example I came across last weekend:
> 
> in.dhcpd	is present on OpenSolaris but it is unusable because of two 
> 		reasons:
> 
> 		-	I cannot be configured by a simple configure scipt
> 			but requires to use configurator programs instead.
> 			These programs depend on Java that is not part of
> 			OpenSolaris and not freely redistributable.
> 
> 			As a result, in.dhcpd on OpenSolaris is 100% unusable.
> 

There is a redistribution clause in the license for the JRE - it perhaps 
is not 100% compatible with the OpenSolaris terms to the point that you 
could use it in Schillix, but that's something we probably need to get 
Sun's lawyers to work out.  It doesn't seem likely to me that we'd 
prefer you not ship our JRE in Schillix.

> 		-	The configuration is so cryptic that I failed a fifth
> 			time to understand it and it was another time that I
> 			compiled and configured ISC dhcpd instead and configured
> 			it within 2 minutes without even reading the man pages.
> 

Sorry that it seems so difficult for you - many customers seem to work 
with it pretty easily, and find the tools to be helpful.  Each style of 
configuration has its strengths and weaknesses, to be sure.

> Well, I need to replace in.dhcpd from Sun by a working program which could be 
> ISC dhcpd. Unfortunately Sun's "add_install_client" and similar scripts
> depend on Sun dhcpd....well, I could argue that "add_install_client" does not
> work correctly for x86 systems and needs to be fixed anyway. 
> 

Well, we try to present an integrated experience among the pieces of the 
system that we ship.  In the recent past we've talked about abstracting 
that interface such that it would be easy to plug in configuration of 
other DHCP servers.  Unfortunately, that's a little harder when, like 
ISC, they don't provide any script or programmatic configuration 
interfaces.  But I'm sure we'd react positively to contributed changes 
that moved us in that direction.

Dave
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