[CrackMonkey] OS/X Warp!

Sean Neakums sneakums at zork.net
Fri Jun 29 12:07:44 PDT 2001


>>>>> "MM" == Monkey Master <monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org> writes:

    MM> begin  Peter A. Peterson II quotation:
    >> It's not that Darwin source isn't available -- It's just a
    >> frustration with the BSD license in that it lends itself to this
    >> kind of use -- how much cooler would it have been if Apple would
    >> have open sourced their GUI, too? I mean, is there really a
    >> practical use for Darwin outside of being the BSD backend for OS/X?

    MM> Can you explain why use of the GPL for FreeBSD would have
    MM> required Apple to release their UI code?

I thought pedro's point was that Apple wouldn't be inclined to release
the Quartz/Aqua code under a BSD license, not that a GPL BSD core
would have required the UI code to be released.

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