On Mar 23, 9:11 am, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote: > On 3/22/2010 8:01 PM, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> > 2. Mac OS X is BSD Unix. It has existed for half the time that linux > > has, and has more than 5 times the web client share of linux, so yes, > > BSD is on its way to eclipsing linux as a client OS. > It is not correct to say that Mac OS X "is" BSD Unix for normal > definitions of "is". > Look at <http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-105/>. > The mix of licenses is broad, but many of Apple's own OS components > are licensed under the APPLE PUBLIC SOURCE LICENSE, found at > <http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/>. If Raffael had said that OS X is a "BSD-licensed Unix", your argument would be on point (and Raffael's would be very, very silly). However, he said nothing of the sort. Whether it's a BSD Unix or not has nothing to do with its licensing, and never has. The BSD Unix codebase was intentionally licensed in such a way as to allow people to make and sell partially or wholly closed-source, commercial derivatives. Over the years, a lot of vendors have taken advantage of this opportunity, including Sun, NeXT, Apple and, IIRC, Digital. Cheers, Pillsy _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss