[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

Jonathan Adams t12nslookup at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 16:09:43 UTC 2011


according to the reports I listed, the general consensus is that it's
licensed under CDDL ... but I haven't looked at it to confirm.

Jon

On 19 December 2011 15:53, Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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