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		calinet6 on Oct 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X 10.10 – Source Code Ah, the freedoms of permissive licenses... better than proprietary at least.

cowsandmilk on Oct 31, 2014 [–]

they wrote launchd. Even if they released it under GPL, as the copyright owners, they would have the freedom to make future releases closed source.

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