Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I don't believe Apple's runtime (or at least CF and other important parts) are open, are they?


IANAL but looking at ThirdPartyNotices.txt there is MPL code, so they're probably OK with APSL. Maybe not so with LGPL though (which would rule out Apportable's otherwise excellent Foundation implementation).

It's also kind of weird they're using OpenSSL instead of Microsoft's SChannel. Usually Microsoft are pretty good at only giving you one way to hang yourself in the security department - I'm a big fan of SSPI, even if the API is occasionally unwieldy. (And as soon as I wrote that, I remembered CryptoAPI vs CNG...)


Apple's runtime and most of CoreFoundation are available at http://opensource.apple.com along with a lot of other stuff.

I don't know offhand if their license would be suitable for Microsoft's purposes.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: