What I said is a disjunction of what happened in OS X 10.8 and 10.9 regarding 
location of symbols in binaries - you should know that OS X 10.8 is already 
published for months, and this change actually happened in OS X 10.7.

(Did I say that something interesting happened too? If I say anything more than 
that then the NDA will bite me.)

Sent from my iPhone

> On 2013年6月19日, at 22:33, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Maxthon,
> 
> Please do not post information that is either under NDA or which has been 
> obtained via reverse engineering methods.   While reverse engineering might 
> be legal in some countries it is not legal in all countries.
> 
> Graham is correct in what he said.  The FSF acknowledges and respects 
> intellectual property rights.  By ignoring these rules you are jeopardizing 
> the project.  Please respect the rules we have laid down for you here 
> regarding the posting of such information to this list.
> 
> I am the list moderator, I have flagged your subscription for moderation.   
> This doesn't mean you've been removed from the list, it simply means that 
> your posts will be forwarded to the list after review by me at my discretion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregory
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Graham Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Those who do not learn from history are doomed to reinvent it. From 
>> "Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism" 
>> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html):
>> 
>> > Consider GNU Objective C. NeXT initially wanted to make this front end 
>> > proprietary; they proposed to release it as .o files, and let users link 
>> > them with the rest of GCC, thinking this might be a way around the GPL's 
>> > requirements. But our lawyer said that this would not evade the 
>> > requirements, that it was not allowed. And so they made the Objective C 
>> > front end free software.
>> 
>> The Free Software community has got where it is today by acknowledging the 
>> complex system of intellectual property protection as it exists, and using 
>> it in novel ways in order to extend freedoms to the users of its software. 
>> This has been done, as we see in the example above, by respecting and 
>> working with the legal systems in place, not by ignoring them or proclaiming 
>> that they do not apply. Sometimes it means that things we might want to do 
>> such as reverse engineering proprietary software should not be done. Other 
>> times it means that things other people might want to do such as 
>> incorporating free software into proprietary products should not be done. So 
>> there are sometimes downsides, and sometimes benefits: either way there is a 
>> clear set of values in play that lead to this game having certain rules.
>> 
>> You are, in ignoring these rules, ignoring the values that many of the 
>> people on this list share with the organisation that "owns", in its way, the 
>> GNUstep project. It is not a surprise that these people are, as a result, 
>> asking you to avoid repeating your mistakes or even calling for you to be 
>> removed from the mailing list. Please consider this.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Graham.
>> 
>> On 19 Jun 2013, at 14:18, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Given that:
>> >
>> > 1) Apple did not patent Cocoa and/or their implementation of 
>> > CoreFoundation, and
>> > 2) GNUstep contains no Apple code
>> >
>> > We will be good, as Apple have no reason to drag us into trouble. We are 
>> > not infringing any IP at all if that two conditions is met.
>> >
>> > Just look at Mono which is a binary-compatible reimplementation of 
>> > Microsoft .net and they did not complain (and even eventually advertising 
>> > it to some extent).
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> >> On 2013年6月19日, at 21:05, [email protected] wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Why do you want to transform GNUstep into something else ?
>> >> Why do you want to implement exactly the same way it's done by Apple ?
>> >> Maybe you are excited to discover technical details and I completely 
>> >> understand that but
>> >> your discoveries won't be implemented.
>> >> What you are trying to do I have already followed that path by trying to 
>> >> implement CoreGraphics
>> >> using reverse engineering and CFLite and it was fun to do but at the end 
>> >> it was useless for
>> >> legal reasons among other things.
>> >> I should have participated to GNUstep instead of loosing too much time on 
>> >> this project.
>> >>
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