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That code is not there in order to be useful to someone. It's there to meet the liabilities that they have through the licenses for the used open source softwa
by Matthias247 10y ago
That code is not there in order to be useful to someone.
It's there to meet the liabilities that they have through the licenses for the used open source software. These licenses often say that if you use the software you also need to allow the public to retrieve it. Even more so if you make modifications to it.
- vvhn 10y agoThat's only true of GPL'ed components shipped as part of Mac OS X/ OS X / macOS. A vast majority isn't - some are BSD and most are Apple originated software under an Apple Open Source License (APSL)
- Matthias247 10y agoYeah, that might be true. But if you are a big organization you probably want to have a standardized process on how to handle third party open source software (how to document it, where to store it, etc...).