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From: bmc@zion.eng.sun.com (Bryan Cantrill)
Subject: [TUHS] Solaris 10 source code
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506182235.j5IMZ5HW028548@zion.eng.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2054168344-1119125315-cardhu_blackberry.rim.net-22130-@engine93> from James at "Jun 18, 2005 08:08:02 pm"


> Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/) has some VERY good discussion of the 'openness' of this code...

Can we please restrict this kind of dogmatic assertion to Groklaw?  CDDL
(the license for OpenSolaris) is an OSI-approved license; it is just as
open as the BSD license or the MPL or any other OSI-approved license.

As for Unix history, you can definitely see the Sixth Edition roots
of Solaris.  Look, for example, at the comment above exit():

  http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/os/exit.c#exit

Pretty amazing that this comment hasn't changed in 30+ years...

	- Bryan

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-18 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-18 20:08 James
2005-06-18 22:35 ` Bryan Cantrill [this message]
2005-06-19  1:07   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2005-06-19 13:17     ` Gunnar Ritter
2005-06-19 21:24       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2005-06-19  2:10   ` Gregg C Levine
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-18  5:36 James Falknor
2005-06-18 16:39 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2005-06-18 19:52   ` Gregg C Levine

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