19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
4:35 a.m.
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
Pretty amazing that this comment hasn't changed in 30+ years...
- Bryan
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Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc