/bin/sh - POSIX?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 19:46:05 UTC 2017


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:38 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Indeed, but on 10.9 . I needed to be certain that there had been no
> changes no matter how unlikely that seemed (or not, given Apple's allergy
> towards GPL'ed software).


Not GPL in general, just GPL3. Which is why they ship the last GPL2 bash. I
would not expect them to replace this unless someone comes up with a
feature complete bash clone (at least up to the last GPL2 version) with an
acceptable license; too many of Apple's own scripts would break.

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