We’re pleased to announce that launchd is now available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

We hope this will further enable and encourage adoption of launchd by many daemons which could be run under the auspices of launchd, and by other operating systems interested in adopting the launchd methodology.

Although heavily customized for use on Mac OS X, at its core launchd is platform independent. Last year, a largely successful FreeBSD port of launchd was sponsored by the Google Summer of Code.