From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 16 13:54:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C599314EE3 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA60480 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:54:00 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:54:00 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Apple's open source... Message-ID: <19990316235359.F432@shale.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Well, what's the verdict... http://www.publicsource.apple.com/ I'm not one for Brett style advocacy, but this takes the cake. They used BSD and CMU licensed software to develop most of the OS, and then release it with a big announcement of 'open source' under a more restrictive license... Seems to be basically the Netscape Public Licence with a s/Netscape/Apple Public/g. And they invite ESR to the launch. Not one mention of NetBSD, or FreeBSD. And yes we remember that they used a NetBSD userland, with lots of FreeBSD thrown in... http://www.geocrawler.com/mail_msg.php3?msg_id=928440&c=3 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail_msg.php3?msg_id=772422&c=3 At the very least they're in violation of the BSD advertising clause... -Jeremy -- | ----------------------------------------------------- --+-- "What a crazy world we live in, | we save the whales yet support abortion" - MIC | ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message