[Lilux-info] Re: SUN Microsystem goes OPENSOURCE.

Hotmail users are not banned from this mailing-list ? :-) Dear, if I'm not wrong, you don't understand what is OpenSource. Please visit http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php. To be OpenSource, Solaris should be distributed in source format, under a licence that is compatible with the principles contained in the OpenSource definition. It is not at all the case yet, as far as I know. Solaris 10 is available for free (as a beer, = gratis) download. You still need to agree on a licence that is not at all OpenSource compliant. You can't (as far as I know) get the source code, so Solaris 10 is downloadable as a freeware. Full stop. It is purely proprietary software. Few last versions of Solaris were also available the same way (or by mail) for 0€ or the cost of the shipment. This has never done Solaris an OpenSource neither a Free Software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). Sun is currently thinking about releasing the source code of Solaris under an OpenSource licence, but hasn't even yet said what kind of licence it will be. "MARCO FARDELLINI" <fardellini(a)hotmail.com&gtm> wrote: -- -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net