Ben wrote: > While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source > project?
That question seems to be confused about both what OpenSolaris is and what open source is. "Indiana" was the code name of the project to build the distro that was then given the name "OpenSolaris". It's been open to some amount of community participation, but the core release management of that distro was always unfortunately done behind closed doors at Sun - Sun announced the schedule it chose based on the availability of Sun's resources to produce & test it, and alignment with Sun's other product releases & events like JavaOne, we didn't take community votes on release scheduling. Sun was open about many parts of the process, but not all (I certainly went to weekly distro engineering/planning meetings that were not open to the public and which we were not allowed to share all the information from with the public). Much of the code for the OpenSolaris distro comes from the open source project OpenSolaris - in that project (really, that family of related projects hosted on opensolaris.org) the community has been able to participate in various ways, though again, the bulk of the work and some key decision making was always done by Sun employees. OpenSolaris, in both forms, is mostly open source - the source for most of it (with some notable exceptions due to third party code that never got replaced) is available under an open source license. That's not the same as community developed or community controlled, but then many corporate-sponsored open source projects are that way - final decision making for Ubuntu lies in the hands of its "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (who just happens to be the one providing the financing), Fedora similarly has a project leader who works for Red Hat. And while Linus isn't beholden to one specific corporation, it is still he, not the community, who has ultimate decision authority over the Linux kernel. These projects may all be more open and transparent about their decisions and schedules than OpenSolaris has been lately, but that doesn't make the licenses stop complying with OSI's definition of open source, though it may not be what some people think of when they hear "open source". -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org