Re: how big portion is opensource
Re: how big portion is opensource
- Subject: Re: how big portion is opensource
- From: mm w <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:18:57 -0700
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Marian Such <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to apologize if this question was answered/summarized somewhere
> else before, but if not:
> How big portion of OS X kernel is open sourced? What all is missing to be
> able to compile your own kernel in OS X like you can do in GNU/Linux?
nothing, (except Apple ACPI Platform implementation, you have a binary copy),
some low level hardware concerns like every constructor
> What is the biggest problem with open-sourcing other parts of kernel? Is it
> licensing or is there any other reason?
third-part-copyright, Apple concerns ecetera about their technologies
and their hardware,
nothing exceptional
> I know there has been some discussion before, but I couldn't make clean
> image of it, so I would be very thankful if someone summed it up.
> thanks in advance
> marian
not really, an interesting question, and certainly not the place for that
Best
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