macos

The open-source components of macOS. Using the "GitHub File Diff" Chrome/Firefox extension is recommended as most commits are too large to view fully. (by apple-open-source)

Macos Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to macos

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macos reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of macos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
  • ScummVM officially released in the App Store
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    > ...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

  • Open Source at Apple. Open source software is at the heart of Apple platforms and developer tools. Apple works with developers around the world to create, contribute, and release open source code.
    1 project | /r/opensource | 12 Nov 2023
  • The first conformant M1 GPU driver
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
    What do you mean by "upstream" in this context? https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos ? Something else?
  • macOS 13.5 source code released
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    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.

  • Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
    2 projects | /r/linux | 7 Dec 2022
  • Tutorial – Write a Shell in C
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2021
  • Operating System
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 21 Dec 2020
    Yeah, definitely not a fan of the phoning home part. But let’s not be melodramatic. https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos
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