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Date:      Sun, 30 May 2004 23:51:44 +0200
From:      "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>
To:        "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Hackers FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Darwin cmd import?
Message-ID:  <027001c44690$4cefb7b0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040529194548.74482Z-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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"Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > regarding the APSL (http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/), do you think
> > it is possible to import some darwin commands w/ mods. 
[snip]
> The FreeBSD Core Team took a look at the APSL a while back, and decided
> that similar to LGPL/GPL, it was an acceptable license for use in
> userspace for stand-alone tools, but that similar protections to LGPL/GPL
> would be required for kernel code (not built by default, carefully marked,
> etc).  That said, Apple tends to release only code they've heavily
> rewritten or created from scratch under APSL; code they modify tends to
> remain under the existing license (CMU, BSD, etc).  Generally they're
> careful to label the license on the download page.

thanks for lighting me :)

Cyrille Lefevre.
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