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This. They took half of FreeBSD without giving them a single cent, only to never give horseshit about them afterwards. They're didn't even add support for FreeBSD to Swift despite the fact it would cost them very little effort, just to underline how little they care.


The clue is in the name FreeBSD: a portmanteau of both ‘free’ and the BSD licence which explicitly allows them to take it and reuse the code.


To be fair, if FreeBSD didn't want that to happen, they should have licensed under GPL.


FreeBSD quite famously is not licensed under the GPL but rather under a BSD-style license.


I am aware of this. Hence the reason for mentioning it–Apple clearly chose to use BSD because it's not GPL, but I don't think it's fair to complain that Apple is bound to contribute back. This is the tradeoff the project made when they chose the BSD license.




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