<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Monterey it's still GNU 1.06. On Ventura, it's<div class="">bc 4.0.2</div><div class="">Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors</div><div class="">Report bugs at: <a href="https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc" class="">https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">supposedly with more features than the GNU version.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2024, at 03:08, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2024, at 00:03, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">The MacPorts version uses MacPorts supplied libraries (other than libSystem). The macOS version uses macOS supplied libraries. (ultimately from the same open source projects, but potentially different versions and build options, so not identical code)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It's *not* the same software. MacPorts has GNU bc 1.07 which is licensed GPL-3. macOS used to have GNU bc 1.06 released back in 2000 under GPL-2. Apple has switched to someone else's bc implementation in recent macOS probably because as we know Apple is allergic to GPL-3. <br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>