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by UncleEntity 2761 days ago
BSD license doesn't require you to release your code changes.
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Huh. I'm somewhat surprised Apple releases the source code at all, in that case. It's not required, and they don't accept outside contributions, so what is the benefit?
A great benefit of upstreaming code is that it becomes someone else's problem to maintain it.