Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2007 16:09 UTC, submitted by Dubhthach
From information posed on the OpenSolaris discussion boards 4Front Technologies plan to offer the source code of OSS v4 under both the CDDL and GPLv2 licenses. "The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June 14th). We will be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc."
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Member since:2005-07-06
What do you mean value-added?
I'm justg wondering if they will be opening _EVERYTHING_ up, or will they still have a version with some proprietary bits to generate the Green Stuff. For instance, the base system and drivers could be open, but they might keep some kind of "wizard" interface closed that makes the process easier.
Just wondering.
Member since:2005-07-06
What do you mean value-added? They have always been the value-added product, vanilla BSD was the regular one.
But they're opensourcing the whole thing (drivers included). The question has to be asked - hwo are they going to make money? 4Front makes more than just OpenSound, so one could argue that with the focus on other stuff, OpenSound wasn't exactly contributing much to the over all revenue/profit.
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2006-03-12
What do you mean value-added? They have always been the value-added product, vanilla BSD was the regular one.
It's nice that they're releasing it though, means we may see some reverse engineering of the important bits and their consequent addition to the vanilla systems.