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Apple has an equivalent page for iOS, but they've done a very good job phasing out anything GPL or LGPL licensed, and are now down to a very small set of tools
by Xuzz 15y ago
Apple has an equivalent page for iOS, but they've done a very good job phasing out anything GPL or LGPL licensed, and are now down to a very small set of tools with any code released: http://opensource.apple.com/ http://opensource.apple.com/
- mp3geek 15y agoThe very reason why I prefer the GPL/LGPL over the BSD license, no obligation to give back/share with the community.
- jamesaguilar 15y agoI don't get it. What purpose do the licenses serve if the software goes unused?
- nknight 15y agoYou could basically say the same thing about any proprietary license. It won't go unused by anyone who needs it and is willing to abide by the provisions of the license, same as any other software license. And there are many millions of people happily using GPL'd software every day.
- pallinder 15y agoAnd the very reason I dont, I have no intention of forcing my views of what should be done with the sc onto people that might benefit from using it.
- burgerbrain 15y agoYou mean distribute it, not use it.
- tobylane 15y agoIt seems that what is left of GPL software there is either things that they've changed beyond recognition since taking on (webkit) or absolutely basic parts like gcc. Bit of a shame the larger pieces, all the way up to Darwin have nearly died.
- nknight 15y agoNot sure what you mean, exactly. GCC went away for 5.x, sure, but that's because they've switched over to clang, which may not be (L)GPL, but is open source, and I haven't heard any stories of secret modifications to it. Everything else seems to have remained from one iOS release to the next...?