Re: Redistribution of /Developer/Tools components...
Re: Redistribution of /Developer/Tools components...
- Subject: Re: Redistribution of /Developer/Tools components...
- From: Michael Tsai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:29:26 -0500
On 2:09 AM 10/26/02 Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
wrote:
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> Specifically, I'd like to bundle CpMac and MvMac in my app bundle.
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> What's the legal aspect of this?
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I highly doubt that it would be legal to bundle those tools in your
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app.
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Fortunately, their functionality is pretty easy to duplicate. Just
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make two command-line tools which take two paths as input and then
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run -[NSFileManager movePath:toPath:handler:] or -[NSFileManager
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copyPath:toPath:handler:] with the paths as arguments.
copyPath:toPath:handler: does preserve resource forks, but it does
not preserve HFS+ metadata. I'm not sure about
movePath:toPath:handler:, but it probably doesn't either.
If you are running on 10.2 or later, 'ditto' may be an acceptable
replacement for CpMac.
--Michael
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