Re: [aclug-L] Apple finally did it

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After a brief review of the License, it appears that it is not what
would generally be qualified as Free Software (according to the DFSG).
However, there is considerable discussion about this going on, and I
have not reviewed it thoroughly.  More details to come...

John Reinke <ufotofu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I had heard rumors a while back that Apple was considering opening up their
> source for the new BSD-based MacOS. It sounds like they did it, but with
> their own license. I'm curious what similarities exist between their
> license and others like GPL. Any open source pundits out there care to
> comment? (John Goerzen?) It will also be interesting to see how the license
> may protect information from being used by others working on LinuxPPC,
> etc...
> 
> I haven't checked it out yet, but I know they had been developing an Intel
> version as well.
> 
> http://www.publicsource.apple.com/
> 
> john
> 
> 
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