On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:31AM +0200, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:39:39PM +0200, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > > > >>In defense of the emancipation project.. /they/ really don't have much > >>alternative since the OSR to review the Citrus code would be unfeasible > >> > > > >Hmm, why would that be? The CDDL and the BSD licenses are compatible. > >Has anyone actually tried to run such an OSR? > > > > > >>and could never be included in onnv-gate. > >> > > > >I don't get this either. > > > #1 It's a lot of work that I don't #2 I don't know anyone willing to > sign the sca that will do it.. #3 it's a lot of code to OSR.. I mean > seriously.. we aren't talking about something the size of cdrecord.. if > you want a wc -l I'll take a look... From a licensing perspective yes.. > that's what makes it legally possible in the first place..
Er, the amount of code is irrelevant to the OSR process. I think the chances of getting an OSR approved to include Citrus in OpenSolaris are are very good -- the two-clause BSD license and the CDDL are compatible. The work of replacing the closed-source libc wchar_t bits with Citrus may be hard, but surely it'd be easier than re-writing it from scratch, no?
