This is the reason why I’m not a fan of permissive licenses.
If Google is the sole copyright holder, a copyleft license would change nothing because they still have the option to change the license going forward.
That is actually a fair point, but I assume out of the millions of lines of code, not all of them come from Google, right?
That would requiere convincing the copyright holders of those lines, or at least rewrite them. The latter I don’t see it impossible, but it would take time.
Still, I will always rather a strong copyleft license…
They’ll just do an Apple and publish the source to the bits they have to while keeping the bits they don’t closed source making the os as a whole closed source.
This myth needs to die. The only parts of BSD that Apple used for iOS/osx, were from bsd4.4 (released in like the 1990s). And even then it was only parts of the user space.
I specifically said BSD style license.
ChatGPT claims i the kennel started as a mix of the mach and FreeBSD kennels as base, improved by Apple. sadly I could but find any proper source :(
are you seen to know that “The kernel is a completely different beast.”, maybe you can shed some light
Doesn’t matter for a distribution, Apple historically also shipped some gpl tools like bash and Samba, they just provide the source for what they have to.
If Google is the sole copyright holder, a copyleft license would change nothing because they still have the option to change the license going forward.
That is actually a fair point, but I assume out of the millions of lines of code, not all of them come from Google, right?
That would requiere convincing the copyright holders of those lines, or at least rewrite them. The latter I don’t see it impossible, but it would take time.
Still, I will always rather a strong copyleft license…
They’ll just do an Apple and publish the source to the bits they have to while keeping the bits they don’t closed source making the os as a whole closed source.
So, basically what they’re already starting to do?
I don’t understand.
also I thought Apple builds upon BSD style licensed stuff, while Android is on Linux which is gpl?
This myth needs to die. The only parts of BSD that Apple used for iOS/osx, were from bsd4.4 (released in like the 1990s). And even then it was only parts of the user space.
The kernel is a completely different beast.
I specifically said BSD style license. ChatGPT claims i the kennel started as a mix of the mach and FreeBSD kennels as base, improved by Apple. sadly I could but find any proper source :(
are you seen to know that “The kernel is a completely different beast.”, maybe you can shed some light
Doesn’t matter for a distribution, Apple historically also shipped some gpl tools like bash and Samba, they just provide the source for what they have to.