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That's what OpenSolaris was.  The bits that weren't open sourced
were the bits they weren't allowed to for licensing reasons, such
as the C compiler.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Am Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:49:50AM -0500 schrieb Dan Cross:
> Has anyone tried talking to anyone at Oracle about possibly getting
> the SunOS code released under an open source license? There can't be
> any commercial value left in it.
> 
>         - Dan C.

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