Re: OpenSolaris related licences
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Drew Scott Daniels:
> >
> > > I think the first objection that I have is that there doesn't seem to be
> > > source code to the Sun Studio 10 compiler (I may be wrong though)
> >
> > I would be really surprised if Sun released their compilers together
> > with OpenSolaris. Sun's compilers haven't been part of Solaris for
> > ages, they had to be licensed separately.
> >
> I've just spent a while downloading OpenSolaris. The free compiler release
> is licensed to you personally / only on terms of using it with OpenSolaris
> as far as I can see...
Yes, that's correct.
For quick access to details about the free compilers program, here's
a nice list of links put together by a Sun blogger.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dlindt/20050614#sun_studio_10_and_opensolaris
Eric
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Eric Boutilier
Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems
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