On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 09:51 -0700, Tom Riddle wrote: > An update on timing of the code release. Since there is quite a bit more code > in this release the legal folks would like to review some of the code details > beforehand. This has delayed things a wee bit. My apologies for the delay. Tom >
Tom, I hope you can spare a few moments to educate me in my search to fill a few curiosities I bear. Why is work on this project subject to legalese? It was my understanding that projects in the OpenSolaris 'world' were free from the evil grasp of Sun's legal advisory. Is the code coming from Sun internally? Was code pulled from the old SunOS development packages? Or is there simply a third party code entanglement involved? I became curious because this project sits pretty much idle outside of the Great Wall of Sun, as other projects on the lists have dramatic growth spurts. I am hoping the reason for the legal hair splitting isn't just because the project is worked on primarily inside Sun, if that's the case, how hard would it be to justify a push for that 'staff' to participate in the OpenSolaris side of things? Sure it would take a new level of organization for this particular project, but the pros would outweigh the cons. If thus is the case, I'd expect it would save Sun a lot of money in legal fees, also there probably (not 100% sure) would be a lot more community support if the community wasn't so deep in this pit of obscurity. After all saving money and increasing the combined productivity for Sun would increase revenue's in the long run.. If however, none of this is the case and the trademarked 'PowerPC' name is the source of all the legal waiting lists, my apologies for the mix-up. Best Regards, Christopher Frost
