[indiana-discuss] Indiana Problem Statement

[Stephen Lau]

Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> 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

I'm thinking more along the lines of libc_i18n.a
And if Indiana ever chooses to target sparc, the sparc disassembler will 
need some love.

cheers,
steve

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