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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon sickcodes

legal concern

Open winguse opened this issue 5 years ago • 7 comments

First, I am not a lawyer.

To my understanding, the OSX or macOS are Apple's propertied software, and their software license agreements only allow the software running on "Apple-branded hardware". So I am not sure if it will have issue when using this project to run OSX.

winguse avatar Jun 05 '20 01:06 winguse

So long as the host system is Apple hardware, it's perfectly kosher. I ran Fedora on a mac mini for years. If not, it's the same as a hackintosh - a violation of the license.

TBortels avatar Jun 05 '20 05:06 TBortels

Note that many countries reasonably outlaw the "running on Apple hardware" part, bot you still require a valid license

zakius avatar Jun 05 '20 11:06 zakius

If you own a mac. You own a copy of OSX. It doesn't matter if you visualize it or not as long as you're officially a licensed customer and agreed to the TOS. If you never did any of that, then you're violating terms.

macdougall avatar Jun 06 '20 15:06 macdougall

and you can buy an unbundled license from apple...

Moorviper avatar Jun 06 '20 17:06 Moorviper

You can run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

source: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSCatalina.pdf

tedgonzalez avatar Jul 02 '20 17:07 tedgonzalez

As long as you abide by the Apple Bug Bounty rules, you can conduct security research on Apple systems and are entitled to Safe Harbor. Apple Pay's upwards of 100k for bugs!

https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/

sickcodes avatar Mar 13 '21 06:03 sickcodes

As long as you abide by the Apple Bug Bounty rules, you can conduct security research on Apple systems and are entitled to Safe Harbor. Apple Pay's upwards of 100k for bugs!

https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/

Hi I'm a QA and currently my automated test cases using WebKit are flaky. I wonder if there was a docker image for macOS since Webkit works a lot better in macOS and I found this image and it worked!

I wanted to ask about a legal concern, If I wanted to use this image to run my automated test cases with this image in the company where I work, is there a legal problem there?

ZhouZhengCarlos avatar Jun 05 '24 21:06 ZhouZhengCarlos