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Most of the 'Darwin' open source releases on opensource.apple.com are not under any variant of the GPL. However, they are only provided for OS X - the iOS sect
by comex 11y ago
Most of the 'Darwin' open source releases on opensource.apple.com are not under any variant of the GPL. However, they are only provided for OS X - the iOS section only has a short list of LGPL projects, and ARM code is often stripped out; new projects are never added, even rewrites of older code that was open source (launchd, discoveryd); several projects cannot be compiled without some work dealing with missing header files; and some projects (kernel extensions) have over the years had entire files redacted to blankness, or been removed from future distributions altogether. In other words, it very much feels like a legacy thing.