"OpenSolaris is community code. We're not going to do any major changes without talking first with the community. (That's you. :-))" - Stephen Harpster, replying to rumours that OpenSolaris would be dual licensed under GPLv3
== > Alan Coopersmith announced [1] the latest source update for the X > consolidation, > including notable changes with the addition of DTrace probes for Xorg, and a > number of module updates for Xorg 7.x preparation. He noted that the keytables > and XKB data files are now delivered by the globalization consolidation. > > 1. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-January/000869.html > > Derek Cicero announced [2] that Solaris Express Community release build 55 is > now available. > > 2. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-January/000871.html > > Stephen Hahn sponsored [3] 2007/047 /usr/gnu, a proposal to create a new > directory > hierarchy, to contain otherwise-name-conflicting GNU utilities under their > original > names. In conjunction with this, he posted proposals for GNU coreutils [4][5] > and > GNU which [6] as likely sample ARC cases for the other GNU utilities. > > 3. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000884.html > 4. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000886.html > 5. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000887.html > 6. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000888.html > > Stephen Harpster proposed [7] to extend the term of the current OGB through to > the end of March 2007, to oversee the upcoming constitution vote and OGB > election. > Stephen Hahn followed up [8] with a proposed schedule for the elections. > > 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001393.html > 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001396.html > > Doug Scott forwarded [9] an announcement from Fluendo for those people > interested in playing video's on Solaris, allowing the availability of a > number > of widely used multimedia codecs for use in the GStreamer framework. > > 9. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-January/005014.html > > Stephen Lau reported [10] that the ON Teamware/Mercurial bridge failed during > the dboot putback, noting that he would try and get it online Monday, > detailing > the cause of the failure [11]. > > 10. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2007-January/003242.html > 11. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2007-January/003253.html > > John Sonnenschein proposed [12] a project for collaborating on a KDE based > desktop for OpenSolaris. Roland Mainz followed up [13] with a refined proposal > for the delivery. > > 12. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023342.html > 13. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023384.html > > Wayne Liauh posted [14] a link to eweek discussing the possibility of dual > licensing OpenSolaris under the GPLv3. Stephen Harpster followed up [15] > saying > that any possible move would first be discussed at length in the community, > and > would very much depend on a final release of the GPLv3. > > 14. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023308.html > 15. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023424.html > > David Lloyd proposed [16] a new project for printable many page Solaris > manuals, > to create a set of one to five page printable Solaris manuals to cover > different > aspects of use and/or administration in both server and desktop operating > system > environments. > > 16. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023245.html > > Pavan Chandrahekar proposed [17] a new project, OpenSolaris on extended > partitions, > mentioning that the first phase had mostly been completed and was pending code > and ARC review. > > 17. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023283.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org