[indiana-discuss] License and redistribution of the OpenSolaris updates

[Alan Coopersmith]

Ché Kristo wrote:
> - Are the non-subscribers going to be missing out on security patches and enhancements made available to subscribers? If so to what extent?

I can't speak to how the support contract sales are being worked out,
but my understanding from the engineering side is that for security
patches, we'll make two versions available:

1) The normal integration to the next Nevada build - customers not
   paying for support will have to upgrade to that build when available
   (they're currently setting this up - I upgraded my 2008.05 machines
    on Friday to nv_90 from the internal repo they're testing on and
    it was very smooth and painless and amazingly fast) - you'll get
   the security fix, plus all the other enhancements, bug fixes, and
   possibly new bugs introduced in that build.    This is much like
   the way SXCE users got security fixes, except you won't have to
   download the entire DVD for each build/fix.

2) An additional integration to the gates we forked at the initial
   2008.05 build - customers paying for support will have the option
   to get packages built from these that only contain the original
   code plus security fixes and other escalated bug fixes - no other
   enhancements or changes with the risks those entail.   This is
   more like where Solaris 8 & 9 patches are now.   (Solaris 10
   patches still get new features from the S10 update releases, so
   are more of a middle ground between these two.)

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