[NTLK] Apple Source for MacPaint

Robert Dylan Stewart robertdylanstewart at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 11:45:40 EST 2011


Apple are not *required* to release the overwhelming majority of what they host on that site. Most of Darwin is BSD-licensed, which explicitly does not require reciprocal release, only proper copyright attribution within the source. WebKit is a combination of LGPL and BSD. Darwin Streaming Server is APSL, which does require reciprocal release, but it is original code. Bonjour uses the Apache license, which does not require reciprocal release. LLVM is largely an Apple project just now (they hired the lead dev in 2005), and it is available under a very permissive, BSD-style license. Their contributions to get GCC to build Objective-C are original code released under the GPL.

Please do your research before you claim Apple only releases this code because they are required to.

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Robert D. Stewart - AC5ZH
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On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:27, Lix Diogenes <lix.dio at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On 04.03.2011, at 15:28, David Kendal wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4 Mar 2011, at 14:22, "SteveC" <steve at craftsathome.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Every now and then, Apple releases source.
>>> 
>>> Where by "every now and then" you mean "all the time?"
>>> 
>>> http://opensource.apple.com/
> 
> Well, there's a huge difference between code you are by license required to release (Open Source) and code that is purely your own proprietary stuff.
> 
> The MacPaint code is probably more interesting as a history/gawk item, but still, it's nice to be able to read through it.
> 
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