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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by dcbadacd on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:56PM (#20091043)
The "You must release changes"-clause and anti-tivoization clause might be not be enough individually to switch to MIT zsh but probably were together good enough reasons for Apple to switch.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by Wowfunhappy on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:58PM (#20091054)
Why? How does this affect them on macOS at all?

If Bash were also being used on iOS that would be different, but I'm quite confident that will never happen.

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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by 1over137 on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:34PM (#20091259)
Again, perhaps it is because Apple is planning for a future where SIP and Gatekeeper cannot be turned off. A future where macOS is basically reduced/merged to iPadOS. Time will tell.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by musicale on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:40AM (#20094888)
I expect Macs in enterprise/education are locked down so that Gatekeeper and SIP can't be turned off by normal users.

But preventing ALL Macs from turning off Gatekeeper and SIP? I think that would be unpopular.

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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:06AM (#20095134)
A company or school can already do this easily, by the way, by setting a boot-loader password and restricting admin access. Notably, this are normal macOS functions, you don't need a fancy mtm setup.
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by dcbadacd on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:17AM (#20095811)
That would violate GPLv3, wouldn't it?
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Re:Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:50PM (#20096817)
IANAL, but I really don't think so. On a company laptop, the company owns the laptop, and the company can lock it down as much or as little as they want.
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