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Thanks for the correction. This points to one area of Apple's use of GPL code. Apple doesn't want code licensed under GPL v3+ so they're sticking with the GPL

by canucker2016 2y ago

Thanks for the correction. This points to one area of Apple's use of GPL code. Apple doesn't want code licensed under GPL v3+ so they're sticking with the GPL v2 codebase (and custom-backporting bugfixes?). Apple uses Bash v3.2, GNU Bash is at v5.2.

Klonoar 2y ago
Apple doesn’t have bash as their default anymore, it’s been zsh for years. I presume they keep a bash around due to how ubiquitous it is for scripting.
- canucker2016 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsh says Apple switched to zsh as the default shell (with its MIT-variant license) in 2019. GCC was replaced with LLVM in Xcode 4.2, and GDB was replaced with LLDB in Xcode 4.5 and GDB removed in Xcode 5.0. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode