Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:54:00 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Apple's open source... Message-ID: <19990316235359.F432@shale.csir.co.za>
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Hi all, Well, what's the verdict... http://www.publicsource.apple.com/ I'm not one for Brett style advocacy, but this takes the cake. They used BSD and CMU licensed software to develop most of the OS, and then release it with a big announcement of 'open source' under a more restrictive license... Seems to be basically the Netscape Public Licence with a s/Netscape/Apple Public/g. And they invite ESR to the launch. Not one mention of NetBSD, or FreeBSD. And yes we remember that they used a NetBSD userland, with lots of FreeBSD thrown in... http://www.geocrawler.com/mail_msg.php3?msg_id=928440&c=3 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail_msg.php3?msg_id=772422&c=3 At the very least they're in violation of the BSD advertising clause... -Jeremy -- | ----------------------------------------------------- --+-- "What a crazy world we live in, | we save the whales yet support abortion" - MIC | ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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