Markdown licensing

[John Gruber]

Stephen Haberman <stephenh at chase3000.com> wrote on 12/13/04 at 3:17pm:

> I didn't know any of the Apple/Mac OS X code was GPL'd. My naïve assumption
> was, again showing the little I know about Apple, since it generally came
> from a BSD base, it would have stuck with the BSD license. New one on me.

In general, Apple seems to prefer BSD-licensed tools to GPL-licensed
tools. For example, they replaced `wget` with `curl` at some point.
I think 10.0 shippd with `wget`, and 10.1 replaced it with `curl`.

None of Apple's apps or tools contains GPL licensed software, the
but the system as a whole contains numerous GPL-licensed tools.

Oh, and the Chess game is based on GNU Chess...

[This is getting off-topic from Markdown, however...]

-J.G.