• Aux@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Android and ChromeOS are more Linux than MacOS and iOS are a FreeBSD. Apple closed the source quite a while ago and they have their own fork which I bet is very far away from the original now.

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      2 months ago

      But don’t they have to publish the changes they make the to kernel and or GNU-Tools since they distribute the compiled versions of it (License Wise)?

      Furthermore I remember seeing some activity at their GitHub page for the/some kernel but I may be mistaken.

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        2 months ago

        FreeBSD is licenced under BSD licence, they don’t have to do shit and they don’t. Windows is also using a lot of BSD code and you’ll never see the sources.

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      2 months ago

      Android and ChromeOS are also forking Linux, just not doing hard fork.

      Usually the path is main Linux -> Google -> SoC maker -> device manufacturer. You get Linux millions of lines of code different.