On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:10 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> And that is exactly what Apple (and Microsoft) appear to want to hold as a >> reserve option: the ability to benefit from other people's work, not >> contribute back, while simultaneously restricting user freedom previously >> granted under the GPL. The GPLv3 very clearly bitch slaps this notion. >> > > That is really disingenuous. Apple gives back a ton to the open source > community. Besides the whole webkit thing, FreeBSD has a bunch of code that > Apple put back as do lots of other projects. This is a GPL issue, not > Apple's "ability to benefit from other people's work, [and] not contribute > back".
You have examples of Apple contributing back to the GPL licensed code they've benefited from? Or you only have examples of contributions under licenses that don't require that they share anything, letting them pick and choose which modifications they share? I'm well aware that they contribute some things to open source, under licenses that let them sleep at night. It is entirely within their right to make vertical contributions to particular open source projects, and yet reap broad benefit from open source projects. How many tons has the open source community provided that Apple has benefited from? Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
