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When I was at Apple they were very cautious about this too. It wasn't banned but it was definitely something you had to get approval for.
by todd3834 4y ago
When I was at Apple they were very cautious about this too. It wasn't banned but it was definitely something you had to get approval for.
- fmajid 4y agoApple hates the GPL more generally, not just the GPL, and purged a number of packages from macOS (e.g. terminal-mode Emacs, which has been included since the days of NeXTsteo).
- nojito 4y agoHas nothing to do with hate. The viral nature of the license makes it a nonstarter.
- itsdrewmiller 4y agoGPL has the same virality as AGPL other than it isn't implicated by access over a network. Apple has plenty of software that isn't accessed over a network, so it makes sense that they would care about both. (So does Google, but that code is largely open source already - Android, Chrome/ChromeOS, etc.)