Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:07:49 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Harrison Grundy <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: Tiffany Snyder <tiffany.snyder@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will these new features make it into 7.0? Message-ID: <460F3015.5020308@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com> References: <20070329215652.GD1524@roadrunner.q.local> <20070330192406.GA17536@xor.obsecurity.org> <b63e753b0703311954w443fe8a1x47515a1db33d4b3d@mail.gmail.com> <460F27B0.6040100@gmail.com>
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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
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