[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

Chris Ridd chrisridd at mac.com
Mon Dec 19 15:53:18 UTC 2011


On 19 Dec 2011, at 14:38, Jonathan Adams wrote:

> http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?65756-Solaris-11-source-code-leaked
> 
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11-Kernel-Source-Leaked-241597.shtml
> 
> Has this been "leaked"? do we want to try to look/keep well clear in
> order to see where ZFS changes are made with encryption, to enable
> support?

I would suspect that it would be definitely something to avoid looking at, to avoid any possibility of legal threats from Oracle.

But what if the changed code in the leaked code was licensed under the CDDL. Would that make it OK to reuse outside of Oracle?

Chris



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