Comment by tjl
11 years ago
Apple has made Darwin open source. That, WebKit, and LLVM are pretty core technologies. A good portion of their technology is open. So, it's not just using free software and not giving back.
11 years ago
Apple has made Darwin open source. That, WebKit, and LLVM are pretty core technologies. A good portion of their technology is open. So, it's not just using free software and not giving back.
Darwin is open source but is there anyone here who has actually used it or got a bootable usable machine from it? I mean, can you even run X on it successfully? I never could (didn't try very hard mind you).
The release of Darwin isn't a massive thing I don't think.
There have been several independent distributions of Darwin. The current one is Pure Darwin. http://www.puredarwin.org
There have been several independent ones because they all fail. I don't fully understand the dynamics here, but the inability of the community to create a usefully working OS out of all that open code for over a decade speaks volumes.
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Isn't WebKit a fork of GPLv2 code?
As with everything in technology, it's far more nuanced that that. See podcasts and articles featuring Don Melton for reasons why...
LGPL. But, it's still a core Apple technology. WebKit is far more popular than KHTML.