Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:09:19 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: bedhead@bedhead.karoo.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD PowerPC Porting Message-ID: <41B51EDF.6050503@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41B4F334.10909@bedhead.karoo.co.uk> References: <41B4F334.10909@bedhead.karoo.co.uk>
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bedhead wrote: > Have you approached Apple for the source code they use in OSX? [ "you" is not clearly defined. ] Sure. I am or was reasonably familiar with the source code Apple has released, and there are FreeBSD committers who now work at Apple. > I thought open source meant that you could use the code but any > changes / modifications had to be made available to the originator and > the community under terms of most open source licenses. Yes, the Apple license is open source, which means that source to most of MacOS X is indeed available as a project called Darwin: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apsl-2.0.php There is also anonymous-CVS and CVS-over-SSH available. > I would class the entire port that Apple did as a huge change. OK. > I am not a UN*X user, nor do I understand most of UN*X, although my > reasons for visiting your site and for making the above suggestion are > as follows: It is unclear whether you are in the right mailing list (freebsd-advocacy?), although you did ask questions. :-) [ ... ] > 4. Most of All - I think that the development of PPC FreeBSD code by > the originators of the code would keep the PPC code centralised, up to > date with other ports and most of all, help Apple (if they are then > willing to use your code base). There is a reasonable amount of cross-pollination between the two projects, although the focus is somewhat different. I would be more likely to run MacOS X on Intel hardware than I would be to run FreeBSD on a PowerPC box, frankly, but to some extent that would depend on what I planned to do with the machine. -- -Chuck
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