Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:29:46 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Tiffany Snyder <tiffany.snyder@gmail.com>, Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will these new features make it into 7.0? Message-ID: <b1fa29170703312129y5058a635y88b0bfe421258540@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> References: <20070329215652.GD1524@roadrunner.q.local> <20070330192406.GA17536@xor.obsecurity.org> <b63e753b0703311954w443fe8a1x47515a1db33d4b3d@mail.gmail.com> <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> <460F3015.5020308@mac.com>
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> Has anyone asked Sun whether they would dual-license the needed header files > under a BSD-friendly license? Yes. Current answer is they'll think about it. > Or whether they would publish the APIs via an > RFC so that you could easily re-implement against that as a published spec? I don't know. That would be the cleanest approach. > Sun's released lots of things like XDR and NFS via RFCs, so it's at least not > unprecedented. :-) Its not a communications interface. They don't really have anything to gain (expect perhaps for good will), from standardizing it. -Kip
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