"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > If we are going to endorse a distro as our reference or blessed or whatever
> > distro, what are the requirements it has to meet?
> >
> > Here's a list of ones I can think of to start discussing from:
> >
> > 1) 100% Open Source: The OpenSolaris Constitution, as approved by the
> > voting members of the community and the Solaris management at Sun,
> > requires:
> >
> > 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.
See my other posting: we at least need a self hosting OS that
opens enough to allow porting to neew platforms.
J?rg
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