[indiana-discuss] Including Sun Studio cc with Indiana

Shawn Walker binarycrusader at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 11:46:35 PDT 2007


On 14/06/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > e.g.: stuff in closed-bins is under the OBL, which allows free
> > redistribution.
>
>
> Might it be time for a constitutional amendment?
>
> Article II:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/#ARTICLE_II.__Purpose
>
> ...All software produced by the OpenSolaris Community shall be licensed to
> the public free of charge under one or more open source licenses approved by
> the Open Source Initiative....
> I would say that I would be "ok" with a change, if and only if the
> components were optional (IE: The function it fulfills can be done without
> the closed source bits.). Also, any redistribution rights acquired by
> OpenSolaris.org apply equally to all OpenSolaris distros.

If you want to discuss a constitutional amendment, this really isn't
the right list for that.

The binaries we have are because Sun could not release the source, or
has not yet secured the rights to do so.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/



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