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I learned recently (on superuser) that Mac OS X uses the bash shell. I also know that OS X has a UNIX core. I was searching for information about OS X and Open Source on google, but what I found was which seems to include the source code for OS X.
For instance, one of the links reads: So, is OS X open source? There's an, but I'm bad at understanding legalese. Besides the kernel, What about the various other pieces?
The X server? Window Manager? File explorer? What's open source and what's not? Others have already explained that Darwin is open source.
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It's Mac OS X's kernel, similar to how Linux is the kernel of a Linux distro. Mac OS X's windowing system (called Quartz Compositor) is not open source. You also ask about other open source parts of Mac OS X: Besides the kernel, What about the various other pieces? The X server? Window Manager? File explorer? What's open source and what's not?
One of the most prominent Apple open source projects is probably WebKit, which was originally a fork of KHTML and KJS. WebKit is used.
Another Apple open source project you may have used even if you don't use Mac OS X is Bonjour(, Apple's implementation of Zeroconf. Apple also owns, a printing system that is used by a number of operating systems.
Apple also has a number of other open source projects, such as, and they contribute to many more open source projects, such as gcc. You'll find more at. In addition to that, Mac OS X from Apache to ZFS, most of which are not owned or maintained by Apple. Unix isn't open sourced, and these days it's a certification for a family of OSes that match the Unix common standards.
There are also still OSes that have a heritage in the original Unix versions - Solaris and some of the BSDs for example. None of these are GNU licensed - most BSD variants are BSD licensed, and some versions of Solaris were under the CDDL. OS X is based off bits of FreeBSD, as well as a micro kernel called L7, and Apple has chosen to keep the source of this open - since they have the option to close it off under the BSD license. Here's 's open source components. The Darwin Kernel (based off BSD) - while in theory it's possible to build an OS off it - see. I'd note both projects appear dead, and you would lack many of the desktop components like the desktop and so on. As such, well, it's sort of open sourced, but not in the same way as Linux or BSD.
You couldn't build a working system off Apple's code, but you could pull in some other things and do so if you didn't mind losing much of the Apple UI. Edit - as of Feb 2013, there appears to be a new release of PureDarwin, which.
I have no idea if this means the project is alive or not. I also became aware that Darwin was released in compiled form, which may be a useful starting point for hacking your way around things.
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