[Wolves] Solaris source code will be available under the OSI-approved CDDL

[Peter Cannon]

Solaris source code will be available under the OSI-approved CDDL 
Open for business at www.OpenSolaris.org 

Today, Sun announced that the source code for the Solaris Operating 
System--the most advanced operating system in the industry--will be made 
available through its OpenSolaris program. This milestone opens significant 
new opportunities for developers, customers, and partners. Open source 
Solaris means that the world will have full, free of cost access to the 
Solaris source code. Sun believes that the open source model is the right one 
because it benefits our customers. Open source means that our partners and 
customers will be able to more easily customize Solaris to fit their needs. 
It means developers ouside of Sun will be able to collaborate with our 
Solaris developers at Sun to make this great operating system even better.

Highlights of the announcement include:

Sun will release the code under the newly OSI-approved Common Development and 
Distribution License (CDDL), based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL)
 
Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) code - which changes the way you performance 
tune, debug, capacity plan, or simply understand your systems - is available 
now on http://www.OpenSolaris.org
 
Sun will form an advisory board consisting of two members from Sun, two 
members from the OpenSolaris pilot program, and one member from the broader 
open source community

Find out more...
Read the entire press release: http://www.sun.com/news
Preview the Web site: http://www.opensolaris.org

If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to 
cddl_announce at sun.com.

Thank you, 

 Sun Microsystems

-- 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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