Can Open Source Software be more ubiquitous than this ?

A few days ago I was playing extensively with Apple’s iPhone, investigating each sub-menu and little details. There is a section listing legal stuff and software being used with each license. GPL, LGPL, BSD and other Open Source licensed software rule the iPhone.

Some I have noted:

• BSD kernel
• PPPD
• poll emulation by Brian Clapper
• stack_protector by Hiroaki Etoh
• FreeBSD software
• libgcc
• libstdc++
• libm by Sun Microsystems
• libiconv
• ncurses
• FreeType
• zlib
• SHA2 by Aaron Gifford
• AES and SHA2 by Brian Gladman
• SQLite

• JPEG lib by Thomas Lane
• TIFF lib by SGI
• Kerberos, WebDAV, install-sh by MIT
• Spidermonkey by Netscape
• OpenSSH
• OpenSSL
• OSF’s DCE
• libpng
• Eric Raymond’s giflib
• bzip2
• libuuid by Theodore Ts’o
• Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
• libxml2
• tidylib
• WebKit
• ipsec-tools and racoon