OS X Server (Darwin) Goes Open Source????

Alan Lovejoy sourcery at pacbell.net
Sun Mar 21 19:23:42 UTC 1999



Jeffrey Chapman wrote:

>  > The OSF have criticsed Eric Raymond for "blessing" the Applce license
>  > far too quickly.  There are many reasons why the APSL is not an
>  > open-source license, e.g:
>  >
>  >  http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18541.html
>  >  http://perens.com/APSL.html/
>
>  It's worth reading Eric's response to these criticisms at:
>
>  http://lwn.net/1999/0318/a/raymond.html
>
>  According to him, the Debian group simply misinterpreted the language of
>  the APSL.

Stallman makes some telling criticisms of the APSL that are NOT addressed
by ESRs rubuttal of Perens: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/4263.html

--Alan

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