Re: Licensing Issue
Re: Licensing Issue
- Subject: Re: Licensing Issue
- From: Justin Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:50:52 -0800
On Nov 24, 2004, at 20:26, Girish wrote:
Dear All,
We are adding the support of SnapShot to HFS+ File system and for
achieving this we are modifying the source code of HFS and VFS
available with Darwin kernel. We want to know that can we redistribute
this as a proprietary solution or is there any Licensing issue involve
in this.
You (or your lawyers) should read the APSL, which, I think, is pretty
clear about the use of software from the Darwin base. Each component
available on the darwin site has a license associated with it, and you
should be clear about the license associated with each.
This is from the darwin site (<http://developer.apple.com/darwin>):
"Before you start working with open source projects, please read and
familiarize yourself with the licensing terms that apply to that
project.
For access to Apple-developed open source projects, you will need
to
register as a member of the Apple open source community by
accepting
the Apple Public Source License and choosing a user name and
password.
Non-Apple third party open source projects can be accessed without
such
registration."
Check <http://developer.apple.com/darwin/licensing.html>. I think the
import of the APSL is that you can't use source covered by APSL in a
proprietary way: you have to push your modifications to that source
back to Apple and the Darwin community. If you use source from the
Darwin site that is covered by other licenses, you have to abide by
them.
Two ancillary points:
- Don't cross-post, please. It is an annoyance for others who may not
be
subscribed to all the lists, and clutters the mailboxes of those who
are.
- Don't use HTML when posting to these lists. It may look nice in
your mailer,
but it likely doesn't in others.
Regards,
Justin
--
Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
Institute for General Semantics | If you're not confused,
| You're not paying attention
*--------------------------------------*-------------------------------*
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Darwin-kernel mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden