Even if Apple doesn't care about what Bruce has to say and would rather keep the license as it is now, they may not call themselves "Open Source" because their license does not fit the Open Source Definition. Bruce wrote the Open Source Definition, he should know what it says.
The result of a question about the apple license on the debian-legal mailing list came back with two findings:
Having to tell Apple about your mods before you can make them is non-free
Apple being able to at any time terminate the license is non-free (we have the same problems with IBM's jikes and securemailer licenses)
If Apple is willing to work with the community to make their licenses actually Free Software (according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines) and Open Source Software (according to the Open Source Definition) then there's probably not much to worry about yet and most likely it will not be long before the community and Apple both reap the benefits of the source being truly Open Source.
If Apple is unwilling to work with us on this, we just have one more company trying to cash in on the community without supporting it. I don't know about you, but I don't mind them making money off my efforts provided that they're giving something back. MacOS X has been looking pretty damned cool and it would be SWEET to have an x86 version. It's possible and Apple has come a long way toward that goal already. Yeah Apple, the water's fine, hop in.
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Even if Apple doesn't care about what Bruce has to say and would rather keep the license as it is now, they may not call themselves "Open Source" because their license does not fit the Open Source Definition. Bruce wrote the Open Source Definition, he should know what it says.
I take licenses very seriously. I'm sorry you don't. And I hope you never have to find out the hard way why I am.
If Apple is willing to work with the community to make their licenses actually Free Software (according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines) and Open Source Software (according to the Open Source Definition) then there's probably not much to worry about yet and most likely it will not be long before the community and Apple both reap the benefits of the source being truly Open Source.
If Apple is unwilling to work with us on this, we just have one more company trying to cash in on the community without supporting it. I don't know about you, but I don't mind them making money off my efforts provided that they're giving something back. MacOS X has been looking pretty damned cool and it would be SWEET to have an x86 version. It's possible and Apple has come a long way toward that goal already. Yeah Apple, the water's fine, hop in.
The Apple license is not Open Source. Read the Open Source Definition, read the Apple license, and ignore ESR for a minute.
Go with light mode, keep the boxes.. Well, in lynx anyway light mode is cool because there ARE NO BOXES!
Guilty as charged---hey, do you have a match?
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