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iOS uses freeBSD and OpenBSD components. Isn't that the same thing?
It's a closed source derivative. BSD license allows it.
They've never said their OS is free and open to everyone. It's never been a community project.
Not really. They are independent, pre-existing open source projects. Anyone may use the code in their own projects, within the licenses' rules.
Whereas Google basically started the entire project, benefitted from unpaid contributions, and now wants to close it, after creating a near monopoly, in huge part thanks to it being open.
Apple isn't closing or restricting BSD-related projects, because they aren't theirs, and they existed before Apple included them in its own software.
I have mixed feelings about mega corporations using open source code for free, but the licenses allow it and the developers don't mind, so it's not my place to make a fuss.