From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 11:51:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAD937B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PJpiP80571; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:51:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:51:44 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Chris Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and OS X! Message-ID: <20020125145144.A80482@blackhelicopters.org> References: <004d01c1a5ca$ed2e83f0$49482e3e@aquarius> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004d01c1a5ca$ed2e83f0$49482e3e@aquarius>; from chris_scott@gmx.de on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:05:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Not to push my own work, but here's a link to an article I wrote on this topic: http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=93&aid=7125 We *want* you to steal our code. Please. On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:05:44PM +0100, Chris Scott wrote: > HI folks, > > I`ve a question about the integration of some FreeBSD-Features and (or) source code in Mac OS X: > > Is it in the term the BSD licenses legal to use those featues in a system, that isn`t Open Source or is distributed (like OS X) without Source! OK, there are all those Copyright Notices about FreeBSD in OS X, but does that meet it! I mean, can any development company come and say "Well, I`d like to use the Ports System in my Closed Source System" or is that restricted? > > I think, it`s OK, that the Ports have been ported to Darwin, cause it`s Open Source, but would it be OK, if it would be ported to OS X? > > I hope you could help me! And, guys, fine work you`re doing! > > Thomas -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message