[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

[Jamon Camisso]

There is no way of knowing if the source has been altered or tampered with.

Short of a cryptographically signed release or a statement from oracle, best and safest option is to ignore it and stay far far away from the code.

Jamon

Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

>Open Indiana wrote:
>> It's like sneezing in a dark-room, now Oracle can wait outside to see who
>> all catched the flue.
>>
>> ;-)
>Maybe it is truly CDDL for the parts marked like that,
>besides, why would Oracle keep CDDL headers if it is not CDDL anymore?
>
>Also CDDL is saying derived work holds the same license as previous CDDL
>work. That goes for Oracle Solaris 11.
>
>If Internally in Oracle, source is developed with CDDL headers and
>developing on top of already open and existing CDDL licensed code, then
>does it matter WHO released the code?
>
>Solaris11 It is derived work from Opensolaris, it is same-licensed, it
>is CDDL.
>And maybe Oracle just does not want to acknowledge publicly that Solaris
>11 is open product, like it was Opensolaris.
>Or it was planned at some later time to be publicized.
>
>*Best option is to develop Illumos separately but with S11 CDDL-ed code
>released it leaves Oracle the ability to import Illumos changes they
>like, because their S11 code is published.
>
>Anyway, one Oracle statement about S11 source that is marked with CDDL
>and released, might prove beneficial to Oracle and anyone else.
>Maybe Oracle did not want to make CDDL-derived work available, using its
>power of owning rights to Opensolaris code itself,
>but once CDDL-ed derived work is published, it stays as it is and it
>seems to me there is no coming back for Oracle,
>but to play with the crowd and acknowledge S11 is open source, under
>CDDL and use it to boost Solaris11 support and hardware sales.
>CDDL enforces its license on derived work on similar way Mozilla license
>and GPL licenses do.
>Maybe releasing the S11 code is best thing for Oracle, anyway.
>
>
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