On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:09:32PM +0100, Felix Schulte wrote: > We only have Studio 11 installed as it is the only "free" version - > Studio 10 is not free of charge.
We've been over this before on IRC. Studio 10 is free of charge. See the license terms at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sssent/. IIRC your problem is the "Provided that You are a participant of the OpenSolaris community" phrase and the fact that you insist on doing OpenSolaris development on machines which your lawyers have told you are accessible to people who do not meet that requirement. While there are solid policy and technical ways around this (such as making the compilers executable only by a specific group and then adding all "participant[s] in the OpenSolaris community" to that group), we can't force you to implement them. The constructive solutions available to you are: 1. Use gcc instead. There are 22 open bugs that affect ON when built with gcc, most of which cause compilation failure and are trivial to fix. Use the gcc 3.4.3 delivered with Solaris Express build 22 or later. I can't comment on other consolidations' gcc-readiness. 2. Work with the ON C-team and Pete Dennis in particular to address the Studio 11 bugs. I'm sure he'd welcome your assistance if he hasn't already completed the work; I'll let him provide additional status he might have since I'm not up to date on it. 3. Employ a process and/or technical solution that satisfies your lawyers that you are adhering to the Studio 10 license terms. If you prefer to complain about this, please do it somewhere else; your system comes equipped with a handy pseudodevice, /dev/null, which is highly receptive to complaints of this type. Do not continue misinforming others about the status or availability of Studio 10. If the license does not work for you, don't use the product. Statements to others that it is "not free of charge" are misleading and counterproductive. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
