Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

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Their desktop product is a stolen BSD.

Indeed, but with that kind of licensing there's nothing stopping them. We already found limitations of GPL with RedHat, I think all of these licenses need an overhaul

Note that they still share code for much of Darwin, even where the license does not require it: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions

True, but from what I hear, the dumps don't really help much. Better than nothing, I suppose

If they wanted their code to be sharealike, the developers could have chosen a different license. Apple is contributing more than is required so don't complain?

The point is Apple doesn't actually want to help the community - they might be hoping that someone goes through their dumps and finds a vulnerability and reports it to them. Free community sourced labour.

If they really wanted to help, MacOS should have been GPLv3. But we know that's not how Apple functions.