Fwd: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd

Good news folks!

> B. New "Mac OS Forge" for Community Projects
>
> Mac OS Forge, a new community site hosted by Apple, is being  
> created to support WebKit and other open source projects focused on  
> Mac OS X, especially those looking to transition from OpenDarwin.org.
>
> <http://www.macosforge.org/>

Perhaps this is a good sign for all of those OpenDarwin.org projects  
with no home!

-Lance
____________________
Lance M. Westerhoff, Ph.D.
General Manager
QuantumBio Inc.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ernest Prabhakar <[email protected]>
> Date: August 7, 2006 7:15:51 PM EDT
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server,  
> Bonjour, Launchd
>
> Hi all,
>
> In conjunction with this week's Developer Conference, we have four  
> great pieces of news for Open Source developers:
>
> A. Intel Kernel Sources
>
> As of today, we are posting buildable kernel sources for Intel- 
> based Macs alongside the usual PowerPC (and other Intel) sources,  
> starting with Mac OS X 10.4.7. We regret the delay in readying the  
> new kernel for release, and thank you for your patience.
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/apsl/ 
> xnu-792.10.96.tar.gz
>
> B. New "Mac OS Forge" for Community Projects
>
> Mac OS Forge, a new community site hosted by Apple, is being  
> created to support WebKit and other open source projects focused on  
> Mac OS X, especially those looking to transition from OpenDarwin.org.
>
> <http://www.macosforge.org/>
>
> C. New Open Source Calendaring Server
>
> In order to encourage community participation, source code to the  
> new iCal Server in Leopard Server is now available on Mac OS Forge  
> under the Apache License.*
>
> <http://collaboration.macosforge.org/>
>
> D. Apache-Licensed Bonjour and Launchd sources
>
> To further enable and encourage cross-platform adoption, the APSL**  
> sources for Bonjour service discovery and Launchd process  
> management are being re-released under the Apache License and  
> hosted on Mac OS Forge:
>
> <http://bonjour.macosforge.org/>
> <http://launchd.macosforge.org/>
>
> Apple is more excited than ever about the power of Open Source  
> development to create value for our (and your) products and  
> customers. I'll be offline much of this week due to WWDC, but I  
> look forward to working with all of you as we move forward to Leopard.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ernest Prabhakar
> Open Source Product Manager, Apple
> WWDC 2006, Aug 7-11, San Francisco
> <http://developer.apple.com/wwdc>
>
> * Apache License, Version 2.0
> <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>
>
> ** Apple Public Source License 2.0
> <http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/2.0.txt>
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