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Wasn't the NeXT OS based off BSD? I believe that is open source.
by joejohnson 15y ago
Wasn't the NeXT OS based off BSD? I believe that is open source.
- nirvana 15y agoNot at the time, but it is now. It was owned by the Regents of The University of California, and in the intervening decades, it has gone from being a license you had to pay for, or otherwise negotiate, to a generally open source license.
- protomyth 15y agoWikipedia puts the BSD (open source) at 1988 introduction with the GPL being 1989. NeXTSTEP was released September 18, 1989. So, I would say your dates do not mesh and joejohnson's comment is correct.
- flomo 15y agoBSD wasn't completely open source until much later, so I would assume that NeXT purchased a license, just as they did for Display PostScript and other pieces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
- gujk 15y agoOpen source yes, but not RMS's version. It is debatable whether Stallman was instrumental in creating the free BSD license.