Sun's use of GPL and/or debian source

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shaleh@valinux.com
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:38:57 -0700


"David N. Welton" wrote:
> 
> Alan DuBoff <aland@SoftOrchestra.com> writes:
> 
> > When I saw the debian directories on Solaris I just a bit taken...:-/
> 
> Apparently, MacOS X makes use of some Debian stuff too:
> 
> Package: xnu
> Maintainer: Darwin Developers <darwin-development@public.lists.apple.com>
> Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
> Version: 124
> Build-Depends: cctools, libsystem, files, zsh, tcsh, gnumake, gcc, file-cmds, te
> xt-cmds, shell-cmds, developer-cmds, awk, gnutar, bootstrap-cmds, system-cmds, a
> dv-cmds
> Description: Darwin kernel
> 
> :-)  Probably due to Klee being an Apple employee.
> 

Klee has told me in the past that apple uses dpkg for Darwin at least
internally.