russell wrote: > With a community distro would it be possible to capture drivers that are > being dropped by Oracle from future editions of OpenSolaris?
For the ones that are either open source or redistributable, I don't see why not. > If these drivers can be captured to maintain the existing hardware support, > then going forward if the community edition is fully GPL compliant then > porting GPL drivers would provide a broader set of hardware. The community edition can only be "fully GPL compliant" if the community rewrites the kernel, at which point it's really a new OS, not a community distro. The community can't change the license terms for the code Oracle owns/releases from CDDL to GPL. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org