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> Hard to see how this can be done legally.

Why? Things like Wine and Proton exist and Windows is proprietary.

Even ReactOS, an open-source implementation of Windows exists.

How many years has the Wine project been running?

There is absolutely no equivalent for macOS frameworks. GNUStep is a tiny part of the picture, and in addition has not kept up with the fairly radical changes that Apple has introduced to the frameworks that GNUStep does correspond to.

That's a practical question, not related to the legal question.

The legal question I was referring was related to my perception that the goal was "source code compatibility for macOS applications" now, not after some essentially unbounded engineering task.

That may have been incorrect.

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