[osol-mktg] Re: reference distribution

[Alan Coopersmith]

Brian Gupta wrote:
>   One of the serious issues with this approach, is that developing
>   OpenSolaris code on a Solaris distribution does not provide any
>   technical guarantees that the resulting code in unencumbered.

Huh?   This doesn't make any sense.   What encumberance do you get from
developing on a platform?

>   After this independence OpenSolaris did not start producing their
>   own reference distribution, instead continuing to rely on Sun's
>   Solaris Express Community Edition weekly releases.

biweekly, not weekly.

>   There are certain certain bits in Solaris that have not been released
>   to the community. This new Reference Distribution would be built
>   without those components. Applicable suitable open source
>   replacements would be found. If there isn't a suitable replacement,
>   it would be incumbent upon the OpenSolaris community to develop
>   suitable replacements.

Would you include those released in binary form under the binary
redistribution license?

What platforms will you be doing this for?  SPARC? x86? x64?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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