Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:57 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> 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?
I do not know which aspects of their code are under what license moreso than
the general knowledge of their kernel being BSD-based and (currently) available
as source code as well.
My total experience with Macs is about 7 minutes with OS X at my friend's house
working on a group project about three years ago. :P
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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