From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 17:42:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A033515153 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25509; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:40:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:40:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's Open Source Projects In-Reply-To: <19990325193959O.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > A total joke. > > They define "you" and "your" among other things. > > I also found it overly restrictive. But realize, no matter how laughably long and complex the Apple license is, it's shorter and simpler than the GNU one. > > > > 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message