I think your opinion is too strong, OS X still ships with many GPL licensed software, bash, smbclient, nmblookup and I'm pretty sure that OS X server includes the GPL3 licensed Samba, OS X still comes with gcc, and I believe it will for the next two releases at least. CUPS, the printer daemon that Apple bought some years ago is still a GPLed software and it appears that Apple has done nothing to change that.
Things can change and Apple is a great contributor to LLVM, but Apple appear to have no trouble with the GPL, only trouble with gcc, but that is easy to understand.
The current issue with Apple and GPL stems from the App Store. FSF says you can't limit distribution of the code, which is reasonable since they own the license to the code. Apple says we want to limit the distribution of the app, which is reasonable since they own the channel.
Just like I tell my kids, if you can't get along with the neighbor, don't go play in their back yard. Sounds like Apple is taking that advice and people in the free community are offended.
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I think your opinion is too strong, OS X still ships with many GPL licensed software, bash, smbclient, nmblookup and I'm pretty sure that OS X server includes the GPL3 licensed Samba, OS X still comes with gcc, and I believe it will for the next two releases at least. CUPS, the printer daemon that Apple bought some years ago is still a GPLed software and it appears that Apple has done nothing to change that.
Things can change and Apple is a great contributor to LLVM, but Apple appear to have no trouble with the GPL, only trouble with gcc, but that is easy to understand.
The current issue with Apple and GPL stems from the App Store. FSF says you can't limit distribution of the code, which is reasonable since they own the license to the code. Apple says we want to limit the distribution of the app, which is reasonable since they own the channel.
Just like I tell my kids, if you can't get along with the neighbor, don't go play in their back yard. Sounds like Apple is taking that advice and people in the free community are offended.