[indiana-discuss] Couple of questions on Indiana distro

[BVK]

Hi,

I am trying to understand the goals of Indiana project. I would like
to ask couple of questions in this regard.

1. Is the goal of indiana project is purely building Yet Another
Opensolaris Distro just like, Solaris Express, Nexenta, Belenix, etc.
with GNU/Linux userland? Since this project is also funded by Sun, how
is it different from Solaris Express? What is the importance of
Solaris Express then?

2. What is this Reference-OpenSolaris-Distro noise around Indiana?
Since Sun is the trademark holder for OpenSolaris (?), is Sun going to
give this status, if it turns out to be successful?

With some people, opposing Indiana project altogether, how come it
ever receive such a tag even if it is successful?

3. What will-be the relation between Indiana project and Sun's Solaris
releases in future? Are they going to be derivatives from Indiana
distro, once it is complete? Is this the reason Indiana should look
for backwards compatibility?

5. Lastly, but important enough, what is Indiana's stand on using or
including non-free, redistributable-but-proprietary components? Is
Indiana is going to have any guidelines similar to DFSG?

I believe questions like the last one should be clearly answered for
at least some members of the GNU/Linux community; or it could be that
they are not targeted by Indiana.


/ bvk-chaitanya