The well-regarded developer Winocm has been quietly working on porting Apple's iOS to non-Apple hardware, and he appears to have succeeded in achieving the first "core milestone."
Winocm has now managed to port the core elements of iOS, getting them to work on a Nokia N900 phone.
As of writing there are really no benefits for the average user, but as a basis for future development ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Bozobub: As long as he doesn't do it for money, Apple has no chance of stopping him.
Money may not need be involved depending on how Apple's IOS EULA (End User License Agreement) read, it could be very likely that any "unintended use", or Apple "reserves all rights", or "It is illegal to reverse engineer or use the software in any way not intended by Apple...", "This software included may not be used to produce a product that may compete with any Apple products.." or "Any use of the software must receive permission from Apple/Company..." Those are typical clauses for EULA's I've seen from a number of companies i've worked for. And no money is involved...
If OSX is anything to go by there is not much apple can do. It might be b ased on BSD, the right to which belong to Berkeley University. Unlike Linux BSD users are not required to reveal source code for anything that has evolved from it.
