From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 17:54:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5044C106564A for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC09A8FC1A for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.59]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id MVqW1b0031GhbT856VuA4C; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:10 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id MVu81b00G1f6R9u3TVu9Eo; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:10 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:07 -0800 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:54:06 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090228175406.GA75440@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <630286c70902270134u18505882xbabf547190ae8747@mail.gmail.com> <20090227114529.GC91411@orion.ulstu.ru> <1235738361.6496.4.camel@lenzix.cwb.casa> <87DB90C7-3537-41A4-ABBF-C7682F0EE5F0@rgbaz.eu> <49A94AF0.7080603@bah.homeip.net> <49A965D1.7080309@bah.homeip.net> <1235840070.19936.23.camel@lenzix.cwb.casa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1235840070.19936.23.camel@lenzix.cwb.casa> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.x/OS X 10.5.x X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: THE HACKINTOSH X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:10 -0000 On Sat 28 Feb 2009 at 08:54:30 PST Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: >So, please if you to to the site of hackintosh, you will see that it is >a Darwin, Macos is based on Darwin, and because of the copyright (the >famous GPL...) apple must give away the software they use to build I believe you're right. It's important to distinguish between Darwin, the kernel on which OS X is based, and the full OS X suite which includes the Quartz graphics engine and Aqua user interface. It's only the latter which is restricted to Apple hardware. As long as the Hackintosh project isn't using any of the restricted software, there shouldn't be any license violation. But frankly, once you give up the things that give OS X its "pretty face", you might as well install FreeBSD instead.