On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are the facts as of now according to the official sources of > Opensolaris. > > a) CDDL is an OSI approved licensed. > b) The majority of OpenSolaris code is released under CDDL > (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/) > c) At present, the OpenSolaris source base is not enough to bootstrap an > entire system (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#whatis) > d) A part of the OS is still distributed under a binary licence - code, > not firmware blobs. > > At present, Opensolaris is a+b+c which none of the Linux distros are. > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ mentions the following > which are currently not available as source (some which are not even > planned to be made available as source): > * Xsun server > * TrueType font engine for Xorg server > * Man pages > > I leaving out some which are evidently not owned by Sun. > > Some of us believe that a+b+c is not enough to call the distro as a FOSS > distro (it is on the way there, but not yet there). Also, please stop > making the case that CDDL being OSI compliant makes the whole distro OSI > compliant - even the OSI team would have serious reservations if such > misrepresentations are made. > > Please do not make incorrect comparisons with Linux distros, where > non-essential packages are binary only and not installed in most > distros by default.
So let me get this straight: (1) With Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc. I can install and run a 100% FOSS system without needing any non-free binaries. (2) For hardware etc that *requires* non-free binaries / blobs, I have the option of *not using* that hardware, while still using the rest of the 100% FOSS system. (3) With OpenSolaris (at the moment at least) I need to agree to use a non-free binary just to install the system. Right? If so, I am happy using U, D, F, et al. without the non-free parts, and ignoring OpenSolaris for the time being. ~Vipul -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi.org _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
