site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Hi Girish, You may find this article helpful: <http://developer.apple.com/darwin/news/qa20011004.html#License>. - Kevin On Nov 24, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Justin Walker wrote: On Nov 24, 2004, at 20:26, Girish wrote: Dear All, This is from the darwin site (<http://developer.apple.com/darwin>): Regards, Justin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... 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. "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. -- 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 (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/ kevin%40opendarwin.org This email sent to kevin@opendarwin.org This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com