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They move from GPL, how and why does that make their open source use "a huge meaningless joke"?

You may have noticed the column "overall packages" which shows a significant (and steady) drop over the last releases, even in Apples own open source license.

Yes, yes I did. But I also noticed that the table leaves out other licenses like Apache, MIT and BSD so it doesnt tell you what you think it does. Of the examples I gave, only one uses Apple's APSL license. Never mind.

I was about to write that as well, Apple are using less Apple APSL themselves and moving to wards Apache 2.0 License, and using more BSD / MIT equivalent. Since the Table only includes GPL / LGPL and the not used APSL no wonder why the numbers are dropping.

And so what? To be honest, the statistic would say enough with only the overall column shown.

What do you think what is the outcome when the overall open source software used nearly halved?

I leave this as an exercise to the reader (Hint: the last version of Mac OS X contains less open source software then every version before, overall and in licenses).

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