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by jillesvangurp 657 days ago
Buy a mac. It comes with the OS. Otherwise, talk to Apple but they probably don't do direct sales of their OS. That might be inconvenient for you but that doesn't change the legal situation that you need a license to distribute binaries that belong to them.
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> the legal situation that you need a license to distribute binaries that belong to them

Legally speaking, they don't own the binaries but just have a temporary monopoly.

Though thanks to the likes of Disney, not temporary enough to matter.