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A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
Posted Jun 16, 2005 15:22 UTC (Thu) by dougm (subscriber, #4615)Parent article: A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
od, rdist, telnet and sed are original Unix utilites--Sun's versions may very well be based on that code for compatibility reasons (older Solaris versions had the SysV versions of these programs as the default install), and they may not be able to redistribute source for them yet.
ssh is strange, but its BSD license permits binary redistribution. Not sure if they're withholding source for (bogus) security reasons or what...
The current version of patch is under the GPL, but I think older versions (originally written by Larry Wall) are under the Artistic license as well, so it's possible Sun forked one of those for its distribution.
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A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
Posted Jun 16, 2005 16:18 UTC (Thu) by uwaucs (subscriber, #6160) [Link]
http://blogs.sun.com/nico/20050610 SSH wasn't included in the relase because it was forgotten about until too late. There are also issues with crypto code due to US export regulations (linked from above). If you look at the roadmap http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ you'll see they plan to release more components under the CDDL as time goes by.
I have to disagree with the community comment in the main article - there is already a thriving community of blogs http://planetsolaris.org/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/blogs/ , many by internal sun developers, but also some people external to Sun who got early releases.
A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
Posted Jun 17, 2005 23:41 UTC (Fri) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]
How much is US export policy on crypto still a problem? As far as I know it is legal to export crypto software when a.) the source is available, and b.) you drop an e-mail notice at the US Bureau of Industry and Security.
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/PubAvailEncSourceCodeNo...
But I am not a lawyer, so I may be understating the problem.
A few notes on the OpenSolaris release
Posted Jun 18, 2005 1:32 UTC (Sat) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]
uwaucs wrote:http://blogs.sun.com/nico/20050610 SSH wasn't included in the relase because it was forgotten about until too late. There are also issues with crypto code due to US export regulations (linked from above)
I mean no criticism of Sun Microsystems in saying this: (It's better to be more cautious about BXA regulations than less.) There really aren't issues with US export regulations and OpenSSH, and haven't been since October 2000, thanks mostly to Daniel J. Bernstein's litigation and some good pressure on the administrative law front from Red Hat, Inc.
For more on that matter, please see "Crypto Export" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Licensing_and_Law.
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com