[indiana-discuss] 3.5) Derivative Distributions

[Glynn Foster]

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.

This is where I believe we will need to make some compromises. Do I believe that
this should be a hard requirement before doing a first release? Probably not,
but that shouldn't stop putting a defined roadmap in place, doing some analysis
and documentation of what /usr/closed currently consists of so that we have a
story to figure out resourcing, or escalating to Sun executives [1]. We need a
plan, we need some iced tea

  http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki//Main_Page

and for many reasons why I felt John's GSoC 2007 proposal had a higher priority
above the others.

> Also, I suspect you may want another DST-? goal:
>     Indiana should be self-hosting.

Indeed, absolutely agree.


Glynn

[1] I'm sure this work has been done already and I'm stating the obvious