Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> writes: > Uros Nedic wrote: >> Thanks for answering. But you answered only on one part of >> my question. >> >> Second part is what will happen with closed binaries? Will >> they be opened, exchanged with community developed open >> source equivalents or something else? > > It is likely that most of the closed binaries are closed because they > cannot be opened. Others may be 'pending'. > > All of the 'important' ones are available from the extras repository. > > If you'd like to help replace them, join the emancipation project at > opensolaris.org.
For the sake of clarity: There are the closed binaries, which are redistributable but cannot be made available as source. There are also binaries that, beyond that, cannot be made available in a way that allows for their redistribution (they're the ones not in the ON closed-bins tarball, even. In the case of ON). Only the latter of those sets is really relevant to Indiana, and it's that latter set that Shawn's talking about when he refers to the extras repository. -- Rich
