Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn

["hank smith" <hanksmith4 earthlink net>]

what is the url for this?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Haneman" <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
To: "Peter Korn" <Peter Korn Sun COM>
Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: Solaris 10, questen for Peter Korn


> Petra/Peter:
>
> The text you found in the registration process just means that you won't 
> receive an official right-to-use document if you don't provide a valid 
> email address to send it to. 
>
> Solaris 10 has recently been made available as open source;  a few small 
> pieces that Sun doesn't own the 'intellectual property' rights to are 
> not open-sourced so far, but the vast majority of Solaris is open 
> sourced now.  So there is now something called "OpenSolaris" which is 
> almost identical which you can download, or build, modify and 
> redistribute, under a fully free software license.  (There are probably 
> some additional requirements on the download page because of US export 
> law, but nothing onerous from a free software perspective to the best of 
> my knowledge).  The latest version of Solaris with the latest fixes is 
> available to registered OpenSolaris users as "Solaris Express, Community 
> Edition".  This is all free of charge (unless you want technical support 
> or a service contract, of course, which is not free).
>
> I expect that in the very near future this will be the easiest and best 
> way to get pre-tested gnopernicus, gok, and AT-SPI in a free distro, if 
> it isn't already.  I'll try and do some more research to find out 
> whether the accessibility test suite (which Sun uses internally for its 
> Solaris 10 and Solaris.next "Nevada" builds) can be added to the 
> community OpenSolaris test suite.
>
> I would also very much like to see other distros testing the 
> accessibility stack, since some folks will of course still wish to run 
> Linux instead of Solaris and the whole idea is "universality" of our 
> work.  We're trying to work with Ubuntu to get a working liveCD version, 
> but it seems from the recent omission of atk-bridge from Ubuntu that 
> they aren't testing accessibility yet.
>
> best regards,
>
> Bill
>
> Peter Korn wrote:
>
> > Hi Petra,
> >
> > > In the Licensing Information for Solaris 10 I fund the following
> > > Pharagraph.
> > >
> > > The registration process to receive an Entitlement Document is part 
> > > of the Solaris 10 download process, with the Entitlement Document 
> > > being returned to
> > > you via e-mail. For this reason, YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING E-MAIL 
> > > ADDRESS AS PART OF YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER ACCOUNT. If you fail to 
> > > do so, you will
> > > not receive an Entitlement Document and will only have the right to 
> > > evaluate the Solaris 10 OS for 90 days.
> > >
> > > Are there any limitations in function (including accessebility) 
> > > during this 90 days evalation
> > > piriord?
> > >
> > > Could I in fact evaluate Gnopernicus using Solaris 10?
> >
> >
> > Hmmm... I am unfamiliar with this License document.  What we ship in 
> > Solaris 10 is an unmodified version of Gnopernicus.  No 
> > trial/evaluation code is running that cause the application to stop 
> > running after a certain number of minutes or days.  You can definitely 
> > evaluate Gnopernicus using Solaris 10. Please note though, the word of 
> > open source moves fairly fast, and Solaris 10 was built in January, 
> > 2005.  Gnopernicus and GNOME and FreeTTS and various other 
> > accessibility bits were frozen in November/December 2004.  There have 
> > been many bug fixes in the entire GNOME and accessibility software 
> > stack, in the accessibility implementations of programs like Mozilla 
> > and Evolution, since that time.  One particularly annoying bug affects 
> > the FreeTTS speech synthesizer when used by Gnopernicus - under stress 
> > it can go silent, and the Solaris 10 edition of Gnopernicus won't 
> > re-start it (that's been fixed).
> >
> > Sun releases periodic updates to Solaris.  Solaris 10 Update 1 will 
> > contain a number of very important accessibility fixes (as well as a 
> > number of important fixes having nothing to do with accessibility) - 
> > the speech issue I mentione above is one such fix.  I'll send out an 
> > announcement when it is available.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> >
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