site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) Thank you, Peter _______________________________________________ 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... Derick Centeno wrote: If what has been reported here is true and Apple is changing or has removed standard open source components to it's purposes (whatever that may be), which further limits other current and potentially workable open source projects -- also reported, it might be time to consider the fact that Apple did enter into a open source agreement of a particular unique nature which has aspects of the GPL standard but is not completely standard open source. In short, it is a form of "open source" as Apple has redefined as open source in it's own terms, which Apple feels comfortable with; this is the kind of "open source" definition which Apple developers engage together with Apple in employing. Apple is not the only company to do so, and probably won't be the last. Apple is not violating any contracts by not releasing the sources to *BSD projects. It was not my intent to solicit advertising for yellow dog linux, thank you very much. Apple has no obligation to publish the source code to the non-GPL portions of their codebase. I simply believe that it benifits Apple to do so. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com