> Dunno about the frame buffers, but perhaps libC contains 3rd party IP, > and Sun's license to use it prohibits redistribution by other parties? > I believe that's one of the reasons why you and I are not allowed to > redistribute the Solaris ISOs we can download for free from Sun's web > site: Sun is allowed to distribute it, but others are not. > > Sensible? NOt really, but as Casper (and others) has said, that's one > of the prices paid for developing stuff as closed source. I'm sure Sun > is doing their best to open up libC (or at least allow redistribution), > but if the owner of the IP won't play ball, it's out of Sun's hands > (apart from Sun re-writing the bits that are closed)... > > -- > Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member > > President, > Rite Online Inc.
Hi Rich, okay. If (and only if) 3rd parties are involved into the libC* thing, I _would_ understand it. What I still would not understand - however - is, why the Distros-JDK (on which SUNW has made so much noise about, back in May'06) has not been built with the open gcc. A gcc-built JDK would not depend on those closed libs. Martin (leaving office now) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
