Darwin and GPL
Darwin and GPL
Posted May 4, 2004 22:01 UTC (Tue) by ds2horner (subscriber, #13438)Parent article: The Importance of Linux (linux.com)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but not all BSD-derived systems (including Darwin)
require thet one "share their improvements". Beret asserts this as the 1st importance of Linux. But this characteristic is not shared with BSD, and is not a requirement for non-distributed Linux implementations.
Posted May 4, 2004 22:52 UTC (Tue)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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In practice, many improvers of non-copylefted code tend to share some of their improvements (as Apple did with Darwin, and as many have done with the X Window System), because this can have the effect of sharing the burden of maintaining the code as well. But, of course you are right that with BSD this is strictly optional.
Darwin and GPL