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especially since someone had been working on porting it to FreeBSD for their Summer of Code project.

It's already running.

Works on 10.1

I guess this puts the quiet removal of launchd from macosforge.org into perspective.

Unfortunate timing since it was finally getting a working port on FreeBSD.

Not running 10.10 at the moment; did they switch to something else, or just not release the source?

It's still used, they haven't released the source.

launchd is still the launch agent for 10.10, they probably just removed the source for this version.

Ah, the freedoms of permissive licenses... better than proprietary at least.

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.

Apparently the launchd code got rolled into xpc, which is closed source.