* a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-11 20:36]: > > > I'm not going to try to defend the SDC -- this is neither the right > > list to discuss it nor do I have any connection at all with the people > > who run that site -- but there's a complication here that I think the > > folks posting (and vociferously at that) on the thread need to > > realize. > > Considering "SDC", runs this website, this is the perfect place to > bring it up! Sort of. One problem is that Solaris is just one of the product groups that use the SDC website. We've talked to them before; we can try again...
> > The existing Solaris Express distribution is not redistributable. It > > includes licensed software from other entities, in the form of the old > > CDE environment and Xsun server, among other things. As a result, it > > just _can't_ be as simple as "wget ftp://sun.com/sxce.iso";. I think > > it'd be great if we could do that, but you may as well yell at the IPR > > holders rather than those who are legally compelled to follow the > > rules. > > > > That's why it has that click-through license agreement, and why you > > can't just wget it. The problem isn't just a technical bit of > > stupidity that can be fixed by application of clue. > > Sorry, but that is not logical at all. Either that, or I miserably > failed at grasping the logic: My understanding of the approach below. Could be wrong, of course. > what does the premise that SXCE/DE aren't redistributable have to do > with the fact that one has to login to download it? So that the license that limits how the product can be used is displayed and accepted. > How does forcing people to login before downloading "prevent" or > "ensure" that SXCE/DE won't be "redistributed"? It doesn't: it ensures that all people doing the download have been presented with the license that states that redistribution is not allowed. > And why would anybody bother to "redistribute" 3.5GB worth of stuff > that is already available gratis from Sun? Alternative transports, closer mirrors, burn to media to avoid use of network at all. (These are the reasons some of us spent time excising the encumbered bits--so that Indiana would be redistributable.) - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
