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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by devwastaken on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:06PM (#23921015)
If only open source software licenses could have predicted the level of vertical integration control their software would be used in. Apple continually violates the good will of developers and puts forth their own bad will. I'm tempted to make up an 'MIT minus non-free platforms' agreement. If the OS can't be completely emulated and freeley installed without restriction, then you can't use the library.

I'd like to see Apple survive having to recreate half their software from scratch.

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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by exikyut on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:36PM (#23921882)
They made APFS in (probably?) less than ten years :(

The license structure you suggest sounds kind of interesting.

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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by saagarjha on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:11PM (#23921063)
Sounds like you might want GPL?
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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by searchableguy on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:46PM (#23921385)
Probably AGPL
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Re:Apple Security Research Device Program by rimliu on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:12AM (#23925234)
Go ahead. See how nobody uses your library.
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