• richmondez@lemdro.id
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      I don’t understand.

      also I thought Apple builds upon BSD style licensed stuff, while Android is on Linux which is gpl?

      • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        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.

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          12 hours ago

          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

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        2 days ago

        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.