From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 16 14: 5: 9 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 45BEF1501F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:05:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA26493; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:04:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990316145928.00a501d0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:04:36 -0700 To: Jeremy Lea , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Apple's open source... In-Reply-To: <19990316235359.F432@shale.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Worse still, the press is mentioning Linux in articles about the announcement, and crediting it for the move, even though NOT A SINGLE SHRED of the software that's being released is under the GPL or part of Linux. It's all BSD-derived, or under the MIT X or Apache licenses. See http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33833,00.html for sample coverage. --Brett P.S. -- I'm not sure what you mean by "Brett-style advocacy." I have only described in a very general way what I have in mind, and that plan is only a proposal and subject to revision. At 11:54 PM 3/16/99 +0200, Jeremy Lea wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message