Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> Software that didn't meet those rules (closed source binaries, NDA covering
> >> ARC review) could still be installed on the distro, but couldn't be a core
> >> part of it.
> >
> > I disagree with this for the reasons I listed above. Good work and
> > drivers shouldn't be excluded as long as sufficient redistribution
> > rights are available for them. We don't want to handicap ourselves
> > just to be able to claim "100% open source."
>
> Do we want to be able to have a reference distro that can be easily ported to
> new platforms (PowerPC, Itanium, or whatever else people want) or one that is
> limited to the existing platforms due to core closed binaries?
So you seem to concur my proposal.
I believe that it is part of the emancipation of OpenSolaris, that we cannot
have a reference distro before OpenSolaris allows porting.
J?rg
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