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 than a bit alarmist. Either way, you don't have to open Pandora's torrent as someone else has already looked for you and come up with this brief, high-level assessment: "... the 108MB tarball appears to contain most or all of the source for the kernel of Solaris 11, based on our review of the code. While the majority of the code in the archive is marked with the licensing header for the Common Development and Distribution License, there is also a significant amount of code and makefiles covered by Oracle and other companies' copyrights that did not carry the CDDL, as well as older code bearing Sun Microsystem's copyright in a directory of the archive named 'closed.' That proprietary code includes the source for Solaris' kernel-level cryptographic framework daemon, logical link control driver, and code for mounting NFS filesystems. A significant portion of the code in 'closed,' however, also carried the CDDL header; it's not clear if Oracle intended to make this previously open code closed or not." q.v. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/disgruntled-employee-oracle-doesnt-seem-to-care-about-solaris-11-code-leak.ars I'm sure Ars' lawyers are standing by -- or rather, hanging nearby in their hammocks, sipping their Mai Thais, and dreaming about fat sacks of cash from St. Nicholas. -Gary _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
