RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 3 Open Source ! ! !

["James Nesbitt \(IHQ Network\)" <ihq-network@xxxxxxx>]

If you are allowed to install the software on a different machine, wouldn't
you have to heavily modify the source code to get it to run on something
else besides the Qube 3?

Regards,

James Nesbitt


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Lee
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 23:27
To: Cobalt Users List
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 3 Open Source ! ! !


Does that mean we can install qube 3 OS on any machine in the future?


Rgds
John
>===== Original Message From "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx> =====
>Interesting news for Qube 3 users !
>
>Just saw this over on the Cobalt-Fact list:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobaltfacts-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobaltfacts-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Duncan Laurie
>Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:10 PM
>To: cobaltfacts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobaltfacts] Qube 3 Open Source
>
>All qube3 related software was released under BSD license.  This
>does not include RaQ 550 stuff because that is still being sold
>by Sun.  I realize this will be a FAQ, so I'll be honest in saying
>I have no idea if/when Sun will let us do a public source release
>of the RaQ 550 software.  It will certainly not happen before the
>EOL of the RaQ 550.
>
>Many thanks to Will Dehaan who spent long hours going through
>this million+ lines of source code and getting it ready for
>release.  Also many thanks to Daniel Freeman, without his help
>this never would have been possible.
>
>also as CJ mentioned, watch for news about ROM development here:
>http://cobalt-rom.sourceforge.net
>
>-duncan
>
>>From Chris (CJ) Johnson to cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> I'm sure an official sounding note will be packaged up
>> soon, but as part of the EOL process for the Qube, Sun
>> has decided to open source the Cobalt developed portions
>> of the Qube distribution.
>>
>> A Readme, md5sum and tarball have been posted in the FTP
>> directory:
>>
>>     ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/unsupported/qube3/OSS/
>>
>> This is nearly a 40 MB file, so we are hoping for mirrors
>> to do sensible things.
>>
>> Duncan Laurie, one of our Linux kernel engineers has
>> already set up a sourceforge project for the boot rom
>> environment.  I expect a Sausalito project will follow
>> when someone inclined toward user mode gets to it.
>>
>> The README file contains the text attached below.
>>
>> cj*
>>
>
>
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