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This is only partially accurate. Parts of Solaris continued to be published under the CDDL and other licenses after that. But yes, the kernel and parts of the
by binarycrusader 8y ago
This is only partially accurate. Parts of Solaris continued to be published under the CDDL and other licenses after that. But yes, the kernel and parts of the system libraries were no longer published. Remember that unlike Linux, Solaris is more than just a kernel.
- jolmg 8y agoI wonder if after that, the copies that were distributed under GPL could still be distributed as such. Are the GPL kernel and system library sources still available to download from somewhere (like archive.org or maybe a Solaris fan's website)?
- cryptonector 8y agoYes, they could, but no significant part of OpenSolaris was GPL -- it was all, as much as possible, CDDL. When Oracle killed OpenSolaris that did not cause the previously CDDL'ed code to be no-longer open source, and indeed, there was a fork: Illumos.
- monocasa 8y agoLooking at their source code dump for 11.4, nearly everything that isn't GPL is missing. It's less open than macos.
- binarycrusader 8y agoThen you're probably looking in the wrong place for the non-GPL items. Those are typically on github, for example: https://github.com/oracle/solaris-ips https://github.com/oracle/solaris-ips
- monocasa 8y agoThat's the only Solaris item on Oracle's github, and it's just the package manager. Where's the rest of the OS?