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

[Che Kristo]

Thanks for the clarification Alan.

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:34 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.)
>