bash VS macos

They inlined the code here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bash/commit/9817a...

It is -because- Apple is opposed to Open Source that they are unable to even ship a version of bash from the past 10 years out if fear of the big bad GPLv3 licensing might make them actually allow public auditing of their proprietary OS.

The Apple commitment to Open Source is mostly one direction and largely limited to cased where they have no legal choice such as GPL. They allow some contributions to happen to appease Apple engineers they want to retain, but as a whole Apple is fundamentally committed to walled gardens.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bash/tree/bash-12...

> ...even though they are technically in violation of the GPL by modifying and shipping bash binaries without full source - it is missing rootless.h (not the X11 file)

They're not.

They've covered this in two main ways:

1) By listing all their source code on https://opensource.apple.com/ (which links to their GitHub with all the source code)

2) By offering a complete machine-readable copy of the source code upon request as per GPLv2 (3)(b). This offer is made both in the license agreement[0] you agree to when booting up your Mac for the first time, updating it, etc., as well as in an Acknowledgements.rtf[1] file that is located on your drive at multiple locations (e.g., /Library/Documentation) and linked to from within certain apps (e.g., about section, acknowledgment section under Help, EULA agreement prompt, etc.).

That covers the bash part. rootless.h isn't part of bash and is part of libSystem.dylib, so that would fall under the OS exception in GPLv2[2]:

> However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

0: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSonoma.pdf (see §15)

1: https://opensource.apple.com/source/files/files-553/Library/...

2: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

What do you mean by "upstream" in this context? https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos ? Something else?

The XNU kernel has been open source for a very long time.

https://opensource.apple.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

Note that this is not the full operating system/windowing system, it's just the kernel.

Yeah, definitely not a fan of the phoning home part. But let’s not be melodramatic. https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos