From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 16:41:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (mail2.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAECC15542 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-70-24.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.70.24]) by mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11255; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:41:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA01157; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:40:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's Open Source Projects In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0500 (EST)" <199903251955.OAA24189@lor.watermarkgroup.com> References: <199903251955.OAA24189@lor.watermarkgroup.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990325193959O.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:39:59 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Luoqi Chen Subject: Apple's Open Source Projects Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:55:03 -0500 (EST) > Apple has released source code for its OS X server under some kind of public > license (http://www.publicsource.apple.com), has anybody looked at it yet? > Recently hissed at on -chat... > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:27:31 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > One more for the collection: > >http://www.publicsource.apple.com/apsl.html > A total joke. > They define "you" and "your" among other things. > I also found it overly restrictive. > > Found lots of things to laugh about in the license, but none tops: > ---- > (c) completely and accurately document all Modifications that you have > made and the date of each such Modification, designate the version of > the Original Code you used, prominently include a file carrying such > information with the Modifications, and duplicate the notice in Exhibit > A in each file of the Source Code of all such Modifications. > > I think they are running low on R&D money so they want people to do the > work and make it easy for them to integrate back. :-) I'm happy to see major vendors releasing source code, no matter what their motivations. Another recently announced project which seems to have been completely ignored can be seen at http://www.opentelecom.org Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message