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