On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote: > IMHO it's important we don't get stuck running Nexenta in the same > spot we're now stuck with OpenSolaris: with a bunch of CDDL-protected > source that few people know how to use in practice because the build > procedure is magical and secret. This is why GPL demands you release > ``all build scripts''!
I don't know if the GPL demands that but I think we've all learned a lesson from Oracle/Sun regarding that. Releasing source code and expecting people to figure out the rest could be called "open source" but it won't create the kind of collaboration people usually expect. For any "fork" (or whatever people want to call it, there are many shades of gray) to succeed, the release and documentation of the build/testing infrastructure used to create the end product is as important as the main source code itself. I'm not saying Oracle/Sun should have released all and everything they used to create the OpenSolaris binary distribution (their product). I'm saying they should have first stopped treating it as a proprietary product and then released those bits to further forster external collaboration. But now that's all history and discussing about how things could have been done won't change anything. I hope that if we want to be able to move OpenSolaris to the next level, we can this time avoid falling into the same mouse trap. -- Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
