[aclug-L] Re: (no subject)

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This story has been floating around for months. AFAIK, there are still
no dates. There is also the burning question of how much of Solaris does
Sun actually have the rights to release. One of the biggest problems
with "open sourcing" Netscape has been the removal of scads of non-
Netscape code, which meant that Mozilla started out in a hole. (This
is a fairly generic problem for almost any large body of proprietary
software, but Solaris is derived from AT&T Unix; Sun has unlimited
binary distribution rights, thanks to Novell, but the source code is
now owned by SCO, which views Solaris on Intel as a competitor.)

Finally, note that the license is SCSL (Sun Community Source License).
No one recognizes SCSL as an Open Source License, and it is not in
any sense interoperable with GPL, which means that linking Linux
modules is not an option. (At least according to some common GPL
understanding.)

John Phillips wrote:
> 
> Sun To Make Solaris Code Available
> 
> Sun Microsystems Inc. will make the source code of its Solaris
> operating system available to the public, company executives
> announced. The move is an attempt to match the success of the Linux
> operating system, which is currently available free of charge
> to anyone who wants it.
> http://www.varbusiness.com/news/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=9848
> 
> John Phillips

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