Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur

Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur by glandium on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:21AM (#25682422)

It did come with bash, which is GPL. (sure, zsh is now the default, but bash is there too)

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Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur by JohnTheNerd1 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#25684330)

macOS actually comes with Bash 3.2, which is from 2007. it is the last version released before they switched to GPL. this is actually why they switched to zsh.

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Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur by glandium on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:21PM (#25690677)

Well, the fact is, the version available on opensource.apple.com in macOS 11.0.1 is 123.40.1 and the version in 10.15.6 is 118.40.2... and they slightly differ.

Interestingly, the new version removed the dependency on the unavailable rootless.h header, making it (probably) buildable out of the box, now.

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Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:34PM (#25690808)

I would assume the version difference is from Apple updating it internally. They don't run into GPL issues unless they pull from newer upstream Bash code.

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Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:07AM (#25685377)

^ We all assume that's why, it should perhaps be said. Although I think the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong. :)

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