Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Kho
LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked? Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 3:50 pm I think fears that this might be a ruse on Oracle's side to put OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/26/11 08:21, Nikola M wrote: I know there must be reluctance of accepting that Solaris11 released code is truly under CDDL (for parts that are) . But under what license could it be, since Solaris11 is derived code from CDDL-licensed Opensolaris? Under the new license Oracle chose to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Best course of action is to ignore it, don't look at it, and especially don't download it. What kind of hysteria is this I have no idea! Even if you look at the code and use it, how can one prove that you have actually stolen code? There are many cases where people working independently

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/26/11 14:15, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: (Many people took contact with them, they know that the code is out, but they are not acting against it). Do not make the same mistake as the Ars headline and confuse not talking to you about it as not caring about it or not doing anything about it.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 27, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: You can pretty much guarantee that the only time this will ever be publicly addressed, if indeed it ever is at all, will be in the form of legal proceedings. Against who/m? Torrent users/sites? Mailing lists? Open source projects? There's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:15 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Best course of action is to ignore it, don't look at it, and especially don't download it. What kind of hysteria is this I have no idea! Even if you look at the code and use it, how can one prove that you have actually stolen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Kho
Yes, just take a look at the legal suit against Google. It all started from the open-source Android project. And if you're talking about ROI, and this involves Google, there's all reasons for Oracle to go for it. So, I'd imagine another Google (or some monster company with deep pockets) using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 27 December 2011 21:11, Daniel Kho daniel@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'm pretty sure Oracle knows this by now. If they don't issue a press release (or an order, etc.) on this anytime soon, then I smell fish. It could very well be that it is part of Oracle's official strategy to trap

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Kerpan
Frankly, I don't see why anybody would even be tempted to look at the new code. Most of the people who actually worked on the features that made Solaris unique have moved to companies within the OI/Illumos ecosystem. Various reports by news sites seem to indicate that there's not much exciting in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Nikola M
Open Indiana wrote: It's like sneezing in a dark-room, now Oracle can wait outside to see who all catched the flue. ;-) Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that, besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore? Also CDDL is saying derived work holds the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Jamon Camisso
There is no way of knowing if the source has been altered or tampered with. Short of a cryptographically signed release or a statement from oracle, best and safest option is to ignore it and stay far far away from the code. Jamon Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: Open Indiana wrote: It's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Nikola M
Jamon Camisso wrote: There is no way of knowing if the source has been altered or tampered with. Short of a cryptographically signed release or a statement from oracle, best and safest option is to ignore it and stay far far away from the code. There is of course huge amount of work needed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
Ummm, Larry has been watching epic movies again! It is a legal Trojan horse!... how innovative!; they drop their own trade secrets marked as CDDL and wait for the unaware computer enthusiast to use it and sue him badly! He is truly worst than Gargamel... Well the only option he had to prevent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 12/26/2011 07:31 AM, Nikola M wrote: Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that, besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore? It's a trap that smells much worse than SCO's attempt to kill Linux via lawsuit. Stay away from it. You wouldn't want

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Nikola M
Ray Arachelian wrote: On 12/26/2011 07:31 AM, Nikola M wrote: Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that, besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore? It's a trap that smells much worse than SCO's attempt to kill Linux via lawsuit. Stay away from it.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Gregory Youngblood
at it, and especially don't download it. Greg Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: Nikola M minik...@gmail.com To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked? Date: Mon, Dec 26

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
at it, and especially don't download it. Greg Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: Nikola M minik...@gmail.com To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Robin Axelsson
- From: Nikola Mminik...@gmail.com To: Discussion list for OpenIndianaopenindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked? Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 12:28 pm Ray Arachelian wrote: On 12/26/2011 07:31 AM, Nikola M wrote: Maybe it is truly CDDL

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-26 Thread Gregory Youngblood
again. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked? Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 3:50 pm I think fears that this might

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-22 Thread Gary
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: True, if anyone posts a single comment or thought about the code, all of Oracle will hunt down this list and all its members! Even thinking about looking at that source code, is thought crime! Beware! That's either tongue in cheek or more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-22 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
That was a good article, tnks! I remember those estrange days when nothing was said about what happened to Opensolaris, somehow the silence reminds me of WWII; It makes more psychological damage to make someone disappear without telling a word, than executing him in public. I wonder if this thing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-22 Thread Michael Kerpan
My personal theory is the whole matter is being kept as quiet as possible by Oracle so that Larry can maintain the element of surprise when he attack the leaker's home with his MiG. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-21 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
Roy, I couldn't agree more... You all deserve a penance: Go back home and tell one hundred holy Larrys! On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns out to be a real, officially

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Mark
On 20/12/2011 6:29 a.m., Gregory Youngblood wrote: This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns out to be a real, officially blessed release and not a leak. It doesn't look to be official, since it does contain some closed source code but is mostly CDDL and even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread LinuxBSDos.com
On 20/12/2011 6:29 a.m., Gregory Youngblood wrote: This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns out to be a real, officially blessed release and not a leak. It doesn't look to be official, since it does contain some closed source code but is mostly CDDL and even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 20, 2011, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: Sounds like you have looked at the code. If true, please do not post anything about it here Yeah, no spoilers, man. The release notes Oracle fora posters already told us that JumpStart, lu, nwam, SMC, wcadmin, Xsun, CDE, and sun4u architecture have all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Oracle we're talking about here. I can't quite believe anyone is even seriously contemplating this. -- Dave Koelmeyer http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 08:24 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Larry we're talking about here. I can't quite believe anyone is even seriously contemplating risking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-20 13:24, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Oracle we're talking about here. I can't quite believe anyone is even seriously contemplating this. Perhaps it is best

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 15:13, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: Perhaps it is best to wait and see what the people at Oracle will say or do. Well, with the Friday the 13th memo, there were no comments from Oracle afterwards... -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards Jeppe Toustrup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 15:13 +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2011-12-20 13:24, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Oracle we're talking about here. I can't quite believe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Brian Wilson
On 12/20/11 08:13 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2011-12-20 13:24, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Oracle we're talking about here. I can't quite believe anyone is even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/20/11 03:43, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The code comes together with legal guidelines how to use it... as long as those guidelines are followed, there is nothing wrong about it. If I take something you wrote and post it without your permission under a license you didn't approve it to be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Brian Wilson
And on the heels of my cynicism is useful information from Alan. I'd just like to apologize if my comments offended or annoyed anyone working at Oracle, still doing doing Good Things. My cynicism and frustration wasn't meant to be directed at them, but at the Oracle organization's decisions

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?65756-Solaris-11-source-code-leaked http://news.softpedia.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11-Kernel-Source-Leaked-241597.shtml Has this been leaked? do we want to try to look/keep well clear in order to see where ZFS changes are made with encryption, to enable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Nikola M.
On 19.12.11. 15:38, Jonathan Adams wrote: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?65756-Solaris-11-source-code-leaked http://news.softpedia.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11-Kernel-Source-Leaked-241597.shtml Has this been leaked? do we want to try to look/keep well clear in order to see where ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
according to the reports I listed, the general consensus is that it's licensed under CDDL ... but I haven't looked at it to confirm. Jon On 19 December 2011 15:53, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: On 19 Dec 2011, at 14:38, Jonathan Adams wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Kerpan
I'm assuming that a disgruntled employee made this dump out of frustration with the current situation. Still, given that the CDDL licenses on most files are almost certainly simply leftovers from the Sun era, the code is useless to OpenIndiana and not legally binding. I'd even go as far as to say

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
it wouldn't need to be a disgruntled Oracle employee, they still deal with Intel, and other manufacturers ... just needs to be someone with access to the code and no emotional ties to Oracle. If code is tagged with the CDDL, can that code not be CDDL? if so a third party with no involvement, or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Gregory Youngblood
This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns out to be a real, officially blessed release and not a leak. Given the question as to the origin of this code drop, and the potential huge downside if it turns out to be a leak and not an official code drop, then I would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Lou Picciano
: Gregory Youngblood greg...@youngblood.me To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 12:29:05 PM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked? This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/19/11 07:53, Chris Ridd wrote: But what if the changed code in the leaked code was licensed under the CDDL. Would that make it OK to reuse outside of Oracle? You're asking for legal advice. Any legal advice you get on this list is worth less than what you paid for it.