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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Tsiklon on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:33AM (#16742362)
GPLv3 appears to be the reason for shipping that ancient version of bash.

If you look Apple ship a modern version of ZSH with their OS, I believe because it isn’t affected by the same potential licensing issues.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by mkesper on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:57AM (#16743778)
But why? That doesn't seem like a rational choice by Apple.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ascagnel_ on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:44AM (#16744073)
Apple wants to use open source code, but doesn't want to make their proprietary code open or to license patents to anyone who wants to build off of their code.
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