There is no way of knowing if the source has been altered or tampered with.
Short of a cryptographically signed release or a statement from oracle, best and safest option is to ignore it and stay far far away from the code. Jamon Nikola M <[email protected]> wrote: >Open Indiana wrote: >> It's like sneezing in a dark-room, now Oracle can wait outside to see who >> all catched the flue. >> >> ;-) >Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that, >besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore? > >Also CDDL is saying derived work holds the same license as previous CDDL >work. That goes for Oracle Solaris 11. > >If Internally in Oracle, source is developed with CDDL headers and >developing on top of already open and existing CDDL licensed code, then >does it matter WHO released the code? > >Solaris11 It is derived work from Opensolaris, it is same-licensed, it >is CDDL. >And maybe Oracle just does not want to acknowledge publicly that Solaris >11 is open product, like it was Opensolaris. >Or it was planned at some later time to be publicized. > >*Best option is to develop Illumos separately but with S11 CDDL-ed code >released it leaves Oracle the ability to import Illumos changes they >like, because their S11 code is published. > >Anyway, one Oracle statement about S11 source that is marked with CDDL >and released, might prove beneficial to Oracle and anyone else. >Maybe Oracle did not want to make CDDL-derived work available, using its >power of owning rights to Opensolaris code itself, >but once CDDL-ed derived work is published, it stays as it is and it >seems to me there is no coming back for Oracle, >but to play with the crowd and acknowledge S11 is open source, under >CDDL and use it to boost Solaris11 support and hardware sales. >CDDL enforces its license on derived work on similar way Mozilla license >and GPL licenses do. >Maybe releasing the S11 code is best thing for Oracle, anyway. > > >_______________________________________________ >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
