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This is a licensing issue for Apple, and only a small proportion of their users will care about this, and those users will just install rsync.
by graemep 2y ago
This is a licensing issue for Apple, and only a small proportion of their users will care about this, and those users will just install rsync.
- adrian_b 2y agoYou are right, but I have written my comment exactly for making those users aware of this problem. I consider this a very serious problem, because most naive users will assume automatically that when they give a file copy command they obtain a perfect duplicate of the original file. It is surprising for them to discover that this is frequently not true.
- sneak 2y agoAnd the rsync that has historically come with macOS was always way out of date, so we end up installing a newer one anyway. This doesn’t change much.
- account42 2y agoIs it an actual licensing issue though?