Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source

clarencek writes "Apple has released Rendezvous as Open Source, as promised. Excerpt: Starting today, developers can download Rendezvous as open source under the Apple Public Source License. Rendezvous is part of a broader Open Source release today from Apple which includes the Darwin 6.0.1 operating system and additional Open Directory plug-ins. Together, these underscore Apple's commitment to making core protocols freely available as open standards and open source."

Comments

yes it is nice shame its not compatable with GPL

[johnjones]

yes it is great about apple

pity about whoever they pay to do legal work
(its often these people that get it wrong)

so from this *BSD nor Linux can NOT use the code

thats AFAIK
because its certainly GPL incompatable and I'm not sure about BSD

you would think they would give something back to the BSD boy's and girls as most of the utils apple ship are on that codebase and pray tell whats apples jag's shell BASH from the FSF

sort it apple use the BSD/GPL dual licence for non core
simple really and your after people using this aren't you ?

regards

John Jones

Re:Troll

[g4dget]

APSL has passed most open source advocates' definition of Open

It is arguably an open source license. Nevertheless, there are practical problems with it; RMS's commentary is based on things that anybody using APSL should take a close look at.

Anyone who's rational recognizes the great service Apple has done and continues to do for the open source community.

Oh, get a clue. Apple is a company, not a charity or a benevolent benefactor. They have realized that some open source efforts are good for their business. You don't owe them anything and they don't owe you or me anything. Apple is being rational, and so should anybody using their products.

socialist radicals

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

yeah but they want a market dont they

[johnjones]

we have all seen what happend to apple market share when they did not do things a standard way if they want others to play you have to set out a standard

yes it's their choice

but hey I cant use the Rendezvous in my mac because its not a standard and everything else on the network is non apple is that the kind of thing apple wants to promote ?

regards

John Jones

the fact that apple code cant be used

[johnjones]

and we all start from scratch doing our own thing implementing it well/badly

would solve alot of problems if they just dual licenced it and it could be submitted to be used in *bsd and linux tommorow

if they want results fast they should just give the code under BSD

regards

John Jones