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jiveturkeyyesterday at 5:37 PM0 repliesview on HN

What's to prevent Apple from making iOS and macOS free to "copy, redistribute, and modify"? The OS is free already, and the platform does cryptographic signature verification before allowing its installation. macOS already automatically finds local caching servers, which amounts to redistribution capability baked in.

They can just claim that the user is free to turn off SIP and "modify" the binary bits, or that kernel extensions amount to modification.