Re: Darwin and FOSS
Re: Darwin and FOSS
- Subject: Re: Darwin and FOSS
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:32:50 -0400 (EDT)
On 8 Jun, Dave Schroeder wrote:
> > But Darwin isn't open source anymore.
>
> Yes, "Darwin", technically, still is open source, since Darwin is a
> strategy that represented the act of open sourcing many key
> components of the OS. That is still true.
>
> > You can't compile your own version of Darwin for Intel anymore.
Darwin is an OS, and in order to be FOSS all the components of the OS
must be buildable from freely available source code. That is not the
case for the current version, although it is true of some earlier
versions. One might say that Darwin is no longer open source, but the
older versions still are.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
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