Re: Patch Licensing Terms

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
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>> Am 27.11.2017 um 08:53 schrieb Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org>:
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>> Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Big chunks of BSD code run in many OSes, including Android.
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>> Don't forget OSX, now once again macOS, which was derived from NeXT so the
>> core of macOS is essentially BSD. In keeping with the license there are
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> The core of macOS, aka the kernel, is Mach, which is not BSD.  Some of its userland are BSD derived, but macOS certainly is not BSD.

The Mach kernel is derived from many components, including numerous
from BSD 4.4. If I get time to go back in my book I'll pass on some of
the references. The BSD socket and TCP/IP stack are the most quoted,
but many other examples exist.

>> parts of macOS that Apple does release the source code[1] for... like the
>> Mach kernel, for example. This has allowed the Hackintosh[2] community to
>> thrive, much to Apple's chagrin I am sure! ;)
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>> ~Paige
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>> [1] https://opensource.apple.com
>> [2] Computers that run Apple's macOS on non-Apple, but compatible, hardware.
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