scope (was Re: [indiana-discuss] ZFS to the max)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 26/06/07, Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Peter Tribble wrote:
>> > By people, what's the target audience at this stage? I think my question 
>> is
>> > really whether the first "release" is aimed at users, or whether there 
>> should
>> > be a 0.0 "release" solely for the purpose of Indiana bootstrapping?
>> 
>> Good question. So that raises the issue of "non-emancipated"
>> (non-redistributable) files. That is, should there be a 0.0 or 0.1
>> release that includes them in it? (I vote no, FWIW.)
>> 
>> And if not, wouldn't that be the main constraint here?
>
> Non-emancipated is not the same as non-redistributable. Remember that
> there are binary "blobs" that are redistributable. There are several
> files right now that can be redistributed but have not been
> emancipated that are very important for the basic system. (libm.so
> comes to mind... I think).

Yes, thanks. I meant non-redistributable.