There's too much cargo cult information getting repeated in this thread and going unquestioned. Apple doesn't care about the patent grant parts of GPLv3. The Ap

There's too much cargo cult information getting repeated in this thread and going unquestioned. Apple doesn't care about the patent grant parts of GPLv3. The Apple Public Source License was an early pioneer in granting patent rights. Most modern commentary FOSS licenses are modeled after the grant from the APSL, starting with Apache 2.0, and including MPL2 and GPLv3. There's nothing in the GPLv3 for Apple to quibble about wrt patents; it has everything to do with the GPL's Tivoization stance.