Want to see how Solaris manages locales, sorting and that sort of thing ?
... well, now you can ! Congratulations to the OpenSolaris folks for getting the code out there. Now, if you're done using them, can I have some of your legal folks to finish getting our translation tools released as well ? :-)
aside #1 : actually, I'm kidding - the process for releasing our tools is well under way, suspect next week we'll have some news.
aside #2 : I was really hoping to beat OpenSolaris to a release date : chatting to some of the guys here yesterday, their response was "What, you think you'll have your stuff ready by 4pm tomorrow?" Aah well...
Whenever it comes, it'll be exciting... And most probably a lot more straightforward to install the OpenSolaris. Hopefully with a lot more straightforward license too. Checking up on OpenSolaris considerable muted my enthusiasm. Can't see what would have been wrong with e. g. LGPL...
//Gudmund
Posted by 81.232.45.137 on June 17, 2005 at 02:34 PM IST #
Yep, our install is pretty simple ! (we're using IzPack, so should be just a case of point & click!)
Re. licensing stuff, actually, I think the CDDL is the right way to go : the license is about as straightforward as you can get -- it's pretty much the Mozilla MPL, with additions to acknowledge that if you put code into OpenSolaris, that you also grant IP rights to that code to the project as well. Without that clause, having someone put code into the project, and then proceed to sue the project because we infringed someone's patent would be a bad thing. Simon Phipps explains the issue much better than I could here.
There's also a CDDL FAQ that might be worth reading :-)
Posted by Tim Foster on June 18, 2005 at 09:02 AM IST #