Am 26.10.2011 um 05:28 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner: > On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Simon Wise wrote: >> On 26/10/11 01:29, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >>> The Apple App Store is incompatible with the GPL and LGPL, from what I >>> understand. Getting Apple to make their App Store compatible with the GPL >>> and >>> LGPL is another much better solution since it will work for all GPL and LGPL >>> software. >> >> this is of course the best solution ... but it seems that Apple is deeply >> opposed to GPL and all it represents, they have always been happy to use >> Open Source code, and contributed some too, but have stuck to BSD licensed >> code where-ever they can, and only used GPL stuff when they had no other >> choice. >> >> They seem to object to the idea that using open source code should require a >> reciprocal release of their own improvements and would rather use the work >> of others, but keep their own contributions secret and for their profit only. >> >> This is quite a common attitude, and I assume the reason a lot of companies >> prefer BSD code. But I believe that the reason Linux is as strong as it is >> is exactly because of its license ... any corporation (or any individual) >> that wishes to use Linux legally and distribute their version must do their >> part and publish their improvements. > > > This isn't entirely true with Apple, but it is becoming more and more true. > Apple has done some real contributions to free software, WebKit is one good > example, though they forked off of KHTML in a bit of a punkish way. Then > they merged the BSD parts of Mac OS X with FreeBSD so its the same code base. > They paid Daniel Steffen to port Tcl/Tk to Cocoa as well. They also > contribute to gcc, which is GPL software, and its their main compiler for > both Mac OS X and iOS. > > Then came iOS, and they got crazy.
it's getting quite OT here but there is also CUPS http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/license.html m.
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