site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Smith wrote: | | On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:03 PM, darwin-dev-request@lists.apple.com wrote: |> By limiting published source code to that which is "infected" by the |> GPL, |> Apple is, in my honest opinion, scoring an own goal. | | | You might search for a simpler reason. | | Nine months of really hard work by the folks at Apple, who rightly decided | that it was more important to deliver a kick-ass x86 operating system than | to spend forever trying to package the sources for third-party | consumption. Mike, This seems like a bit of fantasy to me, I think it would have been far simpler to put out the entire cctools project rather than looking for the GNU as sources and putting them in a gas-590.23.2 tarball. Apple has never bothered to "package the sources for third-party consumption" as can be seen from complaints on this list over the years, a number of projects can not be built due to missing files etc. Regardless, I sincerely hope that the source code will eventually appear. I strongly believe that having the sources in the open is of benefit to Apple. Enjoy your beer, thank you for your hard work. Peter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBQ/cZOriDAg3OZTLPAQIhmQQAp8f8iE+L7VT9ymFqOt/Vzai6Ot5faHlE QjlhDJmgHRlzitgP8AZEoOdbd705e5ZznCuVfUtodLQx/i2L9xfy9JrN2+qShbB0 /3NS0rnjNYIVc11m90Y3YCcmCXNFmBue6jrTnPZLNWNjfetYv62W3HI4YD6buRpC 5mVpPQeCys4= =dGsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com