OS X and Unix

Warren Wolfe wizard at voyager.net
Fri Feb 2 19:59:15 CST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:39 -0800, Al Kossow wrote:


>  > Okay...  I just checked, and Apple did NOT go to the nicety of
>  > licensing OS X as a version of UNIX.
> 
> Apple has had a Unix source license for a VERY VERY long time.


    Thanks for that, Al.  Would that apply to all future versions of
UNIX?  That sounds more open-ended than licenses generally are.  I would
think that they would have to get a new license for any new use of code,
such as the Mach stuff from BSD.



            Peace,

            Warren E. Wolfe
            wizard at voyager.net





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