Further to Jane's message[1], I wanted to let people here know what is going on now I have been able to complete some research. I'd been alerted to some issues with attributions in the case of the zyd driver last year. I was thus very concerned to hear just before the break of another claim that the iwk driver was also problematic. My apologies to the OpenSolaris community and to the OpenBSD developers for not discussing this earlier, but I felt it was better to get the facts straight before making comment.
In both cases, it does appear that taking down the code was the appropriate first response. I know Damien Bergamini in the OpenBSD community was very offended and I apologise to Damien and the OpenBSD community for any part Sun's employees may have played in either incident. The zyd driver has now been suitably annotated; the future of the iwk driver is still being researched. It seems the two incidents are quite different from one another in cause. Sun's engineering team is working on new procedures that will minimise the risk of either of these different circumstances happening again. While there's really nothing one can do to make absolutely certain, I know Bill Franklin's staff will be approaching the OGB to request their views on behalf of the OpenSolaris community when they are ready, no later than the end of January. I'll check to make sure you've been informed. S. _____ Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer & Open Source Ombudsman, Sun Microsystems [If you wish to complain about anything Sun has done, please write to ombudsman AT sun DOT com] [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2008-January/ 009596.html
