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Re: Darwin?



On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was browsing around the Apple Darwin website, and as I saw that it's
> license was considered as being really 'opensource', I wondered if anyone
> had looking into it and maybe starting a new Debian distribution with it
> (like with the HURD). 
> As I looked further, I discovered that it in fact already has dpkg in it!
> So, is something already going on with it, or is it not any Debian work
> which put that in there?

RMS disagrees that Apple's licence is free.  I came to the same
conclusion myself before i even came across this page:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html

(and yes before you ask i have looked at the second version of the
APSL)

-- 
Ethan Benson


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