Comment Comment by ADevWithAnIdea TL;DR:1. We want to guarantee our work is not a "derivative work" of anything Apple wrote.2. If we look at any Apple binaries, there's no way prove that our code didn't borrow from Apple.3. Since we didn't look at any Apple binaries, then there's no way our work can be a derivative work-- we didn't even look at their stuff. parent ADevWithAnIdea 1 month ago
1. We want to guarantee our work is not a "derivative work" of anything Apple wrote.
2. If we look at any Apple binaries, there's no way prove that our code didn't borrow from Apple.
3. Since we didn't look at any Apple binaries, then there's no way our work can be a derivative work-- we didn't even look at their stuff.