That was a good article, tnks! I remember those estrange days when nothing was said about what happened to Opensolaris, somehow the silence reminds me of WWII; It makes more psychological damage to make someone disappear without telling a word, than executing him in public. I wonder if this thing we found in the torrent are the remains of it... maybe they are just teasing us.
:-P History will tell. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > True, if anyone posts a single comment or thought about the code, all of > Oracle will hunt down this list > > and all its members! Even thinking about looking at that source code, is > thought crime! Beware! > > That's either tongue in cheek or more than a bit alarmist. Either way, > you don't have to open Pandora's torrent as someone else has already > looked for you and come up with this brief, high-level assessment: > > "... the 108MB tarball appears to contain most or all of the source > for the kernel of Solaris 11, based on our review of the code. While > the majority of the code in the archive is marked with the licensing > header for the Common Development and Distribution License, there is > also a significant amount of code and makefiles covered by Oracle and > other companies' copyrights that did not carry the CDDL, as well as > older code bearing Sun Microsystem's copyright in a directory of the > archive named 'closed.' > > That proprietary code includes the source for Solaris' kernel-level > cryptographic framework daemon, logical link control driver, and code > for mounting NFS filesystems. A significant portion of the code in > 'closed,' however, also carried the CDDL header; it's not clear if > Oracle intended to make this previously open code closed or not." > > q.v. > http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/disgruntled-employee-oracle-doesnt-seem-to-care-about-solaris-11-code-leak.ars > > I'm sure Ars' lawyers are standing by -- or rather, hanging nearby in > their hammocks, sipping their Mai Thais, and dreaming about fat sacks > of cash from St. Nicholas. > > -Gary > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
