From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 17 15:33:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDFE150AB for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:33:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA07921; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:32:53 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990317162855.03e94b60@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:32:48 -0700 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Garance A Drosihn From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Apple's open source... Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <98505.921711276@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:54 PM 3/17/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >If Apple actually contributes code back, I won't actually care so >much what their PR dept. does or does not acknowledge. It would be >*very nice* to get public acknowledgement, don't get me wrong, but >there are all kinds of "technology partners" out there and the ones >who contribute technical assistance (bug fixes, reports, etc) are >just as valuable in their own way. Does the Apple license allow the FreeBSD Project to use what's contributed by third parties? As I read it, only the authors and Apple can use the changes, and Apple can't contribute other people's changes to the BSDs -- only its own. In short, the contributors to Apple's code have to be asked if they will ALSO contribute to the BSDs. (I don't see why they wouldn't, though.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message