HI Justin,
Justin Walker wrote:
On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:28, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
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.
It may be OK, I guess. I didn't know Darwin well so far. and I'm not going to port or derive Darwin to other systems. But I'm interested in a bit.
Eitarou
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