On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Adam Atlas wrote:
It seems that Darwin is one of the few (the only?) BSD-derived
operating system that does not use the BSD License. I downloaded the
4.4BSD-Lite sources (Darwin is based on 4.4BSD-Lite, right?) and it
comes with a copy of the BSD License. And the BSD License says that any
product derived from it, in source or binary form, must include that
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- David A. Gatwood dgatwood@gatwood.net Developer Docs Writer dgatwood@apple.com Apple Computer dgatwood@mklinux.org Check out my weekly web comic: http://www.techmagazine.org _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.