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How do i legally purchase a license for the binaries?
by winternewt 2y ago
How do i legally purchase a license for the binaries?
- jillesvangurp 2y agoBuy a mac. It comes with the OS. Otherwise, talk to Apple but they probably don't do direct sales of their OS. That might be inconvenient for you but that doesn't change the legal situation that you need a license to distribute binaries that belong to them.
- account42 2y ago> the legal situation that you need a license to distribute binaries that belong to them Legally speaking, they don't own the binaries but just have a temporary monopoly.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoThough thanks to the likes of Disney, not temporary enough to matter.
- miki123211 2y agoIANAL, but as far as I understand, the OSX license essentially allows running it in whatever way you want, as long as it happens on Apple-approved hardware. Running in a VM is fine, as long as it actually happens on a real Mac. Depending on how you look at it, the license is either "free" or "not that free, but actually comes with a computer to use it with"