[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 11 11:43:23 PDT 2007


Stephen Lau wrote:
>>>    3.5) Derivative Distributions
>>>
>>>         DST-1: Indiana should be created out of solely 
>>> re-distributable,
>>>                modular binary components that are open source. Indiana
>>>                should value a strong commitment to freedom - the 
>>> freedom to
>>>                download, run, copy, share, change and improve.
>>
>
> Hey Glynn,
>     Does the above mean that Indiana will be helping out with Project 
> Emancipation?  We still have the closed binaries that are 
> redistributable (but not open source) needed before DST-1 can be 
> fulfilled.

   The following list of closed utilities will become open simply by 
moving to ksh93:
   test wait bg type getopts alias umask fg read ulimit jobs hash fc 
unalias kill

Regards,
Moinak.




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