[CS-FSLUG] Is Mac OS X "Closed" or "Open" Source

Don Parris gnumathetes at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 01:53:36 CDT 2005


On Apr 5, 2005 1:25 AM, Timothy R. Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
> The core (Darwin) is under a OSI *and* FSF approved license (ASPL 2.0).
> The top (Quartz) is proprietary. Various parts like Safari's HTML
> engine (KHTML) and Rendezvous networking are Free Software, however.
> It's very much a hybrid system.
> 
>         -Tim
> 


Thanks for clearing that up.  No wonder I felt confused.  Now I know! 
It could very well pass for a number of GNU/Linux distros.

Don
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