Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:39:59 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's Open Source Projects Message-ID: <19990325193959O.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0500 (EST)" <199903251955.OAA24189@lor.watermarkgroup.com> References: <199903251955.OAA24189@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Subject: Apple's Open Source Projects Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0500 (EST) > Apple has released source code for its OS X server under some kind of public > license (http://www.publicsource.apple.com), has anybody looked at it yet? > Recently hissed at on -chat... > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:27:31 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > One more for the collection: > >http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl.html > A total joke. > They define "you" and "your" among other things. > I also found it overly restrictive. > > Found lots of things to laugh about in the license, but none tops: > ---- > (c) completely and accurately document all Modifications that you have > made and the date of each such Modification, designate the version of > the Original Code you used, prominently include a file carrying such > information with the Modifications, and duplicate the notice in Exhibit > A in each file of the Source Code of all such Modifications. > > I think they are running low on R&D money so they want people to do the > work and make it easy for them to integrate back. :-) I'm happy to see major vendors releasing source code, no matter what their motivations. Another recently announced project which seems to have been completely ignored can be seen at http://www.opentelecom.org Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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