On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:57 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> >> Please name one specific product example that has been prevented from being
> >> marketed and/or sold by the GPL.
> >
> > An OSX like system, complete with drivers for all hardware and other
> > licensed components along with a GPL'd kernel.
>
> Wrong! OS X is based on FreeBSD's code, and other open source things
> which Apple has released under their APSL (whose recent revisions *are*
> GPL-compatible, if I recall correctly). Apple is in no way required to keep
> their OS X kernel open source, yet they do anyway because of the good
> community PR and development support it gains for them.
Does that mean that their accelerated video support code is available
for use in Linux and xorg? Their aac, quicktime and mpeg code for
gpl'd media players? Working firewire code?
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Les Mikesell
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