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Re: NS libraries on Mac OS X
From: |
Adam Fedor |
Subject: |
Re: NS libraries on Mac OS X |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:27:46 -0600 |
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julius guzy wrote:
Hi,
i've been struggling to determine which bits of objective c code on mac
OS X are free for me to use under gnu without having to obtain a licence
from apple. I have been directed by numerous people to the darwin
developer pages, foundation pages etc but none of these makes the issue
clear.
Initial investigations at apple developer site appear to indicate that
all of the routines prefixed by NS belong to apple..... but...
I see in your site documentation plentiful references to objects
frefixed NS e.g.
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/gnustep-base_2.html#SEC2 and
http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/BasicClasses/
to name but two.
Are you able to shed any light in the situation, i.e. is it the case
that all of the objects prefixed by NS (e.g NSObject) mentioned on this
site are in fact available under gnu licence even when sited on apple OS
X machines?
Anything you get from a MacOSX machine is copyrighted by Apple. Some
code is part of the darwin project and under Apple's public license.
GNUstep uses the same interface as Apple and in many cases, the same
names. However, our code was written from scratch. It is copyrighted by
the FSF and under a GNU license.
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