From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 14:51:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2164E16A4CE; Sun, 30 May 2004 14:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net (ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net [62.62.156.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EE343D41; Sun, 30 May 2004 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clefevre-lists@9online.fr) Received: from pc2k (200-62-118-80.kaptech.net [80.118.62.200]) by ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 374A517B465; Sun, 30 May 2004 23:52:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <027001c44690$4cefb7b0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> From: "Cyrille Lefevre" To: "Robert Watson" References: Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 23:51:44 +0200 Organization: ACME MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 cc: Hackers FreeBSD Subject: Re: Darwin cmd import? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:51:58 -0000 "Robert Watson" 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. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net