Darren Kenny wrote: > Hi Ken/Dick, > > The issues w.r.t. bumping GIMP right now is not technical, it could be done > relatively easily, as you've seen, but there are logistic/legal issues that > need > resolving before we can distribute it in SXDE or OpenSolaris. > > Specifically the issue is it's dependency on gegl and babl, which are GPLv3 > components - and GPLv3 legal approval is on a case-by-case basis at the > moment - > so this has a knock-on effect on the ability to simply bump GIMP which is > itself > the subject of a legal review - but it should happen, it's just a matter of > waiting to getting this approval. > > Thanks, > > Darren. > > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 06:24 -0800, Ken Mays wrote: >> >>> GIMP 2.6.5 for OpenSolaris >>> --------------------------------- >>> >>> Ref: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html >>> >>> This is the start of migrating GIMP 2.6.5 to OpenSolaris and what is needed >>> to get us there. This is to also bring in the Gutenprint 5.2.3 print driver >>> backend. >>> >> I have to say, with the CBE environment installed and with >> ". /opt/jdsbld/env.gcc.sh" the gimp-2.6.5 tarball compiled and installed >> perfectly. The software is much improved. I hope it will be part of SXCE >> soon too. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Each end-user is entitled to use whatever software they like as long as it doesn't represent the intention of Sun itself, granted you respect the guidelines of the license and other such dribble. In most cases you could go as far as distributing a pre-compiled package for it for the time being, as there are no clear areas where it wouldn't be legally feasible, but obviously this is an extreme case in the for instance that it does not make legal review before the 2009.4 package tree is stabilized.
- James
