19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
7:07 a.m.
On Saturday, 18 June 2005 at 15:35:05 -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
And if it has to be discussed here at all, correct URLs would be
useful. There's no mention of the strings "Solaris" or "CDDL" on
the
page specified above.
Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/) has some VERY
good discussion of
the 'openness' of this code...
Can we please restrict this kind of dogmatic assertion to Groklaw? CDDL (the license for OpenSolaris) is an OSI-approved
license; it is
just as open as the BSD license or the MPL or any other OSI-approved
license.
As for Unix history, you can definitely see the Sixth Edition roots
of Solaris. Look, for example, at the comment above exit():
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/os/exit.c#exit
Thanks. That's very interesting.
Pretty amazing that this comment hasn't changed
in 30+ years...
It would seem that it's the exception. I'm surprised how little
resemblance I find between this code and FreeBSD.
Greg
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