This was not the case in 2015/14. These stack overflow answers easily confirm that you needed to open it at least once, and that there have been related bugs in

This was not the case in 2015/14. These stack overflow answers easily confirm that you needed to open it at least once, and that there have been related bugs in that time: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175069/how-to-accept-xcode-license https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175069/how-to-acce... Good they fixed it. Still made a bad impression on me back then coming from using Linux for over a decade.