Re: [Fink-devel] Apple, GNU, POSIX, and the mess we have

2002-01-14 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 04:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you know if the legal resolution was: > > - we can use dpkg for Darwin because it will never ship with OSX > and is not required to build the foundation of OS X? > > - we can use dpkg for Darwin because our law

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple, GNU, POSIX, and the mess we have

2002-01-14 Thread David R. Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Beautiful. I'm glad to see that that is finally moving forward... > > Do you know if the legal resolution was: > > - we can use dpkg for Darwin because it will never ship with OSX and > is not required to build the foundation of OS X? > > - we can use d

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple, GNU, POSIX, and the mess we have

2002-01-14 Thread bbum
Beautiful. I'm glad to see that that is finally moving forward... Do you know if the legal resolution was: - we can use dpkg for Darwin because it will never ship with OSX and is not required to build the foundation of OS X? - we can use dpkg for Darwin because our lawyer's re

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple, GNU, POSIX, and the mess we have

2002-01-14 Thread David R. Morrison
FYI, the most recent release of the stand-alone Darwin package *does* use the debian package manager. -- Dave ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel

[Fink-devel] Apple, GNU, POSIX, and the mess we have

2002-01-14 Thread bbum
Unfortunately, the reason why Apple ships with the very old and very limited versions of the various command line tools is mostly a legal one. In particular, a lot of effort has been expended on *not* shipping any GPL'd tools in the base system because of the extreme limitations of