OpenSolaris ISO

October 13, 2005 8:02 am General

Luis, I’d *love* to see us have a completely open easily installable OpenSolaris ISO but we’re not there yet. While there are the derived SchilliX and now BeleniX, I’d love to see an OpenSolaris distribution along the lines of OpenSuSE and Fedora. In a way, we do have those ISOs already though – it’s called ‘Solaris Express Community Release’ [see downloads].

From what I gather, the choice of what to use was based on the license and what restrictions we already had with regard to 3rd party code – not whether it was GPL or non-GPL compatible. If we were going GPL, then I imagine our lawyers would probably still be sitting in a room talking. IANAL, so I’ll let others field questions for this one though – as mentioned, it gives the opportunity for the developer to be in full control of how much they want to share, how much they want to keep, and price to pay for their products. While I’m pretty sure Sun will be one of those ‘sharing’ companies, I’m not sure how comfortable I am with making that decision for others.

But sending questions or complaints to ombudsman [at] sun [dot] com would probably be a better way of getting the feedback to the right group of people within Sun.

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