Re: [OT?] BSD licensing
Re: [OT?] BSD licensing
- Subject: Re: [OT?] BSD licensing
- From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Adam Atlas wrote:
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It seems that Darwin is one of the few (the only?) BSD-derived
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operating system that does not use the BSD License. I downloaded the
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4.4BSD-Lite sources (Darwin is based on 4.4BSD-Lite, right?) and it
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comes with a copy of the BSD License. And the BSD License says that any
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product derived from it, in source or binary form, must include that
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license. How did Apple get around that?
Apple doesn't get around it. Files from BSD -do- include the BSD license.
Go look at any of the files in xnu/bsd/* and you'll see that right after
the Apple license header is a BSD license header (occasionally with a NeXT
header in-between).
Later,
David
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