Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
BSD allows the code to be combined with proprietary code and redistributed.
the original '3 clause' BSD license required that the fine print about the
product acknowledge this, but the newer '2 clause' (which is what just about
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Authored by: rcsteiner on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT |
The BSD License permits use of the code in the way that Apple and Microsoft have
used it, and the BSD community seems to actively *encourage* such use, so there
is no "getting away" required.
Those companies are using the BSD Licensed software as its author intended it to
be used.
The several BSD folks I've met and conversed with have a very different mindset
from those I know in the GPL community ... the lack of a "give back"
requirement if you distribute binaries based on BSDL code is seen as an
additional freedom, not as a disadvantage.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
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Authored by: Wol on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT |
If they sue the original coder, the court is likely to bite their head off and
award attorney costs.
But then, in ANY situation where a licensee sues the copyright holder, that is
what should happen.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 04:59 PM EDT |
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1081/
does not list mount or mnt in the sources available for download.
Those functions now seem to be performed by diskarbitrationd(8)
which is available with several supporting bits under APSL.
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