[NTLK] Apple Source for MacPaint

[Lix Diogenes]

I think you missed my point there Robert, which was only that Apple releasing the MacPaint / QuickDraw code was a delightful and generous action on their part. I didn't want to dig into the various OS licenses in detail!

Thank you for your clarifications though.

Hmm, we should probably get back to discussing Newton stuff now...

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Robert Dylan Stewart wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Robert D. Stewart - AC5ZH
> Sent from my phone
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> ==================================================================== 
>> The NewtonTalk Mailing List - http://newtontalk.net/
>> The Official Newton FAQ     - http://splorp.com/newton/faq/
>> The Newton Glossary         - http://splorp.com/newton/glossary/
>> WikiWikiNewt                - http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
>> ====================================================================
> 
> ==================================================================== 
> The NewtonTalk Mailing List - http://newtontalk.net/
> The Official Newton FAQ     - http://splorp.com/newton/faq/
> The Newton Glossary         - http://splorp.com/newton/glossary/
> WikiWikiNewt                - http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
> ====================================================================