> Rick wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:09:04 -0700, John Bailo wrote: >> >>> Ku Karlovsky wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The Hurd developers concluded, as did many others before them, that >>>> Mach's performance and stability was insufficient. OS/X's kernel is a >>>> monolithic kernel based on a rewritten Mach microkernel with parts of >>>> the FreeBSD kernel embedded in it. >>> >>> So shouldn't OSX be licensed under GPL then? >> >> BSD. And much if it is. >> > > I still don't understand. > > Mach is owned by GNU ( or licensed under GPL ). > > If OSX is based -- or includes -- Mach code, then doesn't that GPL OSX?
No, because Mach is NOT "owned by GNU." Perhaps you might find it useful to look at the *real* licensing information about Mach, which was produced at CMU, and therefore owned by Carnegie Mellon University. <http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/FAQ/license.info> Subject: How to get a Mach license Author: Mary R. Thompson Date: Oct 1994 -------------------------------------------- A Mach 3.0 license is required in order to get the complete BSD 4.3 compatible Mach 2.5/3.0 release. This is a rather obsolete system dating from 1992 which is only available for i386/486 platforms and supports the Tahoe level release of BSD 4.3. CMU does not charge for this license, but with the cessation of Mach Project support, it may take quite a long time to process the paper work. Before you can get a Mach license, you must have a Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4.3BSD) license. That license in turn requires that you have a Unix source license. Information about the BSD license can be obtained from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. These licenses were reaonably priced for educational institutions but not for individuals or small companies. If your institution already has a 4.3BSD and you have a lot of patience, you may contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for two signed copies of the Mach license to be mailed to you. Please include the official name of the University/Company to which the license is to be issued and a mail address to which it can be sent. We cannot e-mail or FAX licenses because they must have "real" signatures on them. A sample of a Mach license is included if you wish to check if your company would be willing to sign it. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://cbbrowne.com/info/rdbms.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #153. "My Legions of Terror will be an equal-opportunity employer. Conversely, when it is prophesied that no man can defeat me, I will keep in mind the increasing number of non-traditional gender roles." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
