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> For macOS they could certainly get away with shipping gplv3 code Even limiting that to “in the USA” I would never say certainly for a license for which so li
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> For macOS they could certainly get away with shipping gplv3 code
Even limiting that to “in the USA” I would never say certainly for a license for which so little jurisprudence exists.
Once you add in multiple countries, it doesn’t get clearer.
And yes, that applies to GPLv2, too, but that ship has sailed. I also don’t see them add much new GPLv2 licensed software.
For GPLv3, they also may be concerned about patents. If, to support some MacOS feature, they change a GPLv3 licensed program that uses one of their patents, GPLv3 gives others the rights to use those patents in versions of the tool that run on other platforms.