> Classic MacOS remains proprietary. ... Pity. I'd hope that some day Apple might release whatever source it still has.
I highly doubt this will ever happen. It seems like Apple is trying to avoid any association at all with classic Mac OS, even to the point of declining to go after folks hosting system software or ROM images, or even leaked ROM source code... on GitHub!
Even in the case of QuickDraw, whose source was published by the Computer History Museum, it's under a non-free license — so it wasn't quite released, but merely exhibited. (If you're unclear on the difference, ask any resident of a zoo.)
In the meantime, my own work-in-progress reimplementation of Mac OS is dual-licensed AGPL/commercial. The goal is to run classic Mac applications on commodity hardware.
I highly doubt this will ever happen. It seems like Apple is trying to avoid any association at all with classic Mac OS, even to the point of declining to go after folks hosting system software or ROM images, or even leaked ROM source code... on GitHub!
Even in the case of QuickDraw, whose source was published by the Computer History Museum, it's under a non-free license — so it wasn't quite released, but merely exhibited. (If you're unclear on the difference, ask any resident of a zoo.)
In the meantime, my own work-in-progress reimplementation of Mac OS is dual-licensed AGPL/commercial. The goal is to run classic Mac applications on commodity hardware.