The whole hackintosh segment is the same, and yet we have that as well.
Like speed limits on highways, I consider EULAs to be recommendations and not hard and fast contracts.
There are some opinions like this one that its not legally binding or won't hold up in court. I'm no lawyer but since Apple hasn't been too successful in shutting down the entire hackintosh world, I wouldn't worry about them knocking on your doors
End User License Agreement: All You Need to Know
An end user license agreement (EULA) sets the legal terms between a software publisher and the user, outlining rights and restrictions for software use.www.contractscounsel.com
It would be difficult to go after the Hackintosh community given that you can run the various Hackintosh enviroments on Apple hardware and there are tons of people who do that. There is lots of discussion on this in the macOS forums.
Apple has gone after computer makers selling Hackintoshes, but, to my knowledge, hasn't gone after any Hackintosh users. I would guess that Apple views these users as software customers and future Mac buyers as actually getting a Hackintosh up and running and maintaining it is more work than most people want to put in to their computers. It reminds me of easement law. There are people on YouTube who will sell you services in guiding you through building one. It's possible that they will build one for you as well though this isn't stated in their videos but they do sell their consulting services and, perhaps building one for you, is implied in that service. At any rate, it appears that it isn't a big enough issue for Apple to have cared about given the roaring success of Apple Silicon.
Microsoft has moved towards allowing unlicensed Windows, apparently looking to sell services instead of operating system licenses. You can download, install and run Windows 10 and Windows 11 without purchasing a license. In the case of Windows 11 ARM, where it's only licensed to run on Qualcomm CPUs, there are no checks and I'd guess that there are more people running it on Apple Silicon Macs than Qualcomm computers. Indeed, Parallels gives you basically a one-click install of Windows 11 ARM on Apple Silicon Macs which is a piece of cake to use.
On security research: there are carveouts in the DMCA for security research. The Copyright Office recently expanded carveouts for security research as well. A lot of this world hosts their software on Github so they would be up on this area as they would otherwise have liability for distributing tools that curcumvent security provisions. Here is an article on The Copyright Office expanding rights for security researchers; it's useful for seeing what the existing protections are too. https://github.blog/2021-11-23-copyright-office-expands-security-research-rights/
I think that the Hackintosh world is also hosted on Github. That's certainly the case for OpenCore. Clover appears to be on github; at least pieces of it are. TonyMacx86 has also been around for a very long time and distributes tools though I think that most go OpenCore these days.
I see Apple going to all Apple Silicon in 2023 and macOS aging out of x86 within five years so Apple probably feels that the world will go away eventually.
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