Note that "No developer is required to provide these exceptions in a derived work".
So as copyright holder Apple is reserving compliance with GPL when applied to their own operating system's but this exception does not have to be extended when a develepor distributes his/her derived work. So basically Apple is clearly stating that it can do what it wants with it's own code, they didn't really need to state this at all but they have probably just done so to make clear where they stand. Reminds me of Trolltech. I personally find this acceptable unless they begin to make it difficult for the community to put back their contributions, also if you are required to sign something similar to the Sun Contributor Agreement then you would have to question whether you would want to help them by assigning copyright when they aren't willing to give back themselves. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
