From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 05:52:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A048116A405 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tiffany.snyder@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E65613C483 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:52:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tiffany.snyder@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1118027wra for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:52:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OENjBz5N0d3FFvp+VznN4XG3jSgedPUulNmapMce+FXXX/H+JCS6tUzr9hWS1KzRt0jFrLr+mKbnkKxm9oBTXsMkgYjNF2QzVMN/pp9IuBKlfaR5Z5LKMokaAzX+l1Uxv/BeybDAaBbZVWzz//1Ba2sKAdWCz7b8gdxbCxOcSW4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TDtCHolGb++6fnaLrXCQM95hlKWTGDSFQqVa1lU6O4m7XeaEqwzP5pJGHHSmCtW0d3PbQf86JN+fVnBD1SmNH0UdkwS9xGKl4isI6EgRoXImDKx8ScR0Xyn4Njtz+mb7TezUCkEn0Peea+QOWK6GAs2FJ5VavZWz5ZUi02T2bsI= Received: by 10.114.153.18 with SMTP id a18mr1349273wae.1175405062992; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:24:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.145.20 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:24:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:24:22 -0800 From: "Tiffany Snyder" To: "Chuck Swiger" In-Reply-To: <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070329215652.GD1524@roadrunner.q.local> <20070330192406.GA17536@xor.obsecurity.org> <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Harrison Grundy Subject: Re: Will these new features make it into 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:52:38 -0000 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27426&tstart=0 On 3/31/07, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Harrison Grundy wrote: > > Tiffany Snyder wrote: > >> Kris, > >> would you be able to elaborate more on why DTrace has ben > >> suspended due to non-technical reasons - basically what the issue? I > >> seen a few from -current offering to help. I just saw another email on > >> this very topic on the OpenSolaris dtrace mailing list. > >> > >> Tiffany. > >> > > As I understand it, its an issue with some of Sun's header files, and > > the CDDL. > > > > I'm working on a clean re-implimentation of these, but there's currently > > no ETA on when this will be accomplished, or even if this will be > > sufficent. > > Has anyone asked Sun whether they would dual-license the needed header files > under a BSD-friendly license? Or whether they would publish the APIs via an > RFC so that you could easily re-implement against that as a published spec? > Sun's released lots of things like XDR and NFS via RFCs, so it's at least not > unprecedented. :-) > > Anyone know Casper Dik well? > > -- > -Chuck >