Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> All software produced by the OpenSolaris Community shall be >> licensed to the public free of charge under one or more open >> source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. >> > By that token, Indiana can never meet that requirement. There are > closed source components in it, that are not likely to *ever* be opened > up, and for which it is not realistic to find a suitable open source > replacement. > > Removal of those closed source bits (or replacement with open source) > will cripple the distribution on certain types of hardware,
That may be so, but I strongly doubt that any of the interfaces exposed by those closed-source drivers (etc) are in any way visible as part of an "OpenSolaris ABI for use by ISVs". That is, Oracle, QuickBooks, Acroread, Eclipse, NetBeans and MySQL don't give a hoot about the NVidia driver... Yes, you may need closed things to make an "interesting" or "high performance" distro on some platforms; No, you should not be required to have them just to be able to run applications found in an OpenSolaris-compatible repository. -John
