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Story: OS X evolves with Darwin flaws

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Posted by: James Stansell (Thursday 20 January 2005, 2:37 PM)

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Once a version is released as open source, that version remains open source. The GNU GPL keeps subsequent versions free, but the BSD license does not. So Apple is allowed (or perhaps even encouraged?) to modify Darwin but keep the result proprietary.

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