Holwerda reports, “That of course wouldn’t be a problem in and of itself, if it weren’t for the fact that boot-132 is licensed under the Apple Public Source License, version 2. This is a license which contains a clause similar to the GPL in that when you ship modifications, you also have to provide the source code to anyone you shipped your product to. So far, Psystar has not done so, but it could theoretically be that if you ask them, they might provide it.”
“Now, I place a certain amount of trust in Netkas’ words, but his evidence isn’t necessarily conclusive. More investigations into the matter will have to be performed to get more conclusive evidence,” Holwerda reports. “Assuming Netkas is right, this i a very bad thing [for Psystar]… [Breaking] an open source license which covers distribution… constitutes a breach of copyright, which is a serious offense.”
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