On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:28, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
Hi Q and all,
Q wrote:
Is the darwin entirely open source?
The portions of the FreeBSD kernel that Apple have adopted can be found as part of the XNU project (the darwin kernel) from Apple's Opensource website
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
The CVS tags should still be intact on the files in question.
Darwin, as the underpinnings for Mac OS X, is entirely open source, in the sense that you can build a running Darwin system from the open-source code available from Apple. You can't completely replace corresponding components in Mac OS X with code from the Darwin code base and have a working system (some frameworks/libraries are only partially open source).
Some components of the kernel are not open-source, but they are not needed to build a Darwin system, or to build a kernel that can replace the one you have on a running Mac OS X system. These components are loadable kernel modules, and as such, will load into a rebuilt kernel of the same version level.
Hope that isn't too confusing.
Regards,
Justin
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