Re: Darwin and FOSS
Re: Darwin and FOSS
- Subject: Re: Darwin and FOSS
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:37:10 -0500
On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:32 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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.
Darwin is more than "an OS".
It's also Apple's larger open source strategy, which represents open
source components and projects on Mac OS X.
The major utility from "Darwin" for almost all users who benefit from
Darwin comes from the latter, not from being able to build a bootable
free OS. (This statement is not opinion; it is fact.)
- Dave
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