History
The project was founded by Michael L. Love in November 2000, with the intended goal of porting free software applications to Mac OS X.
Originally, Love had intended to re-write the software to use the Quartz graphics layer that Mac OS X uses by default. After the XonX project ported the X Window System to Mac OS X and Darwin, however, the goals of the GNU-Darwin project changed to simply packaging software to work with the X Window System.
In 2002, the GNU-Darwin group launched a campaign they called "Free Darwin" that was aimed at pressuring Apple to modify the Apple Public Source License (APSL) under which Darwin is licensed. The Free Darwin campaign culminated in December 2002, when GNU-Darwin dropped its support of software linked with proprietary libraries (including Cocoa and Carbon) and switched to the x86 architecture. The PowerPC offering was put into maintenance mode. In July 2003, Apple released version 2.0 of the APSL, which earned a "free software" certification from the Free Software Foundation.
Version 1.0 of the package manager was released in January 2003, allowing for the installation of over 15,000 software packages.
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