James Cornell wrote: > 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. It is a free world out there. But there rules to abide when you are working for a company. This is one of them. > 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. > You are free to build your own version and copy as is everyone out in the open source community. To distribute it as a distribution, Sun has her legal ground to watch. OpenSolaris as a community should be *big* enough for someone other than Sun to provide such version of software. It would be sad if it is not so :(
-Ghee > - James > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
