Anecdotally:

- there has been images like that circulating on well-known platforms† for a long time.

- I never heard of a single DMCA on any of these, even though they were on much clearer violation of the license.

Apple might be pulling a Hackintosh manoeuvre here.

† an example, there are many others: https://app.vagrantup.com/jhcook/boxes/macos-sierra

folks have been building macos vm images, sharing them, and virtualizing macos on macos for a decade or so now.

is this that much different?