Re:I Like Makefiles
by miki123211 on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @02:27PM
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GPL 3.
Apple has restrictions about what software on the system you can modify as a user and how, in the name of security. GPL 3 is unfriendly to such restrictions. Whether what Apple is doing on the Mac specifically violates GPL is, well, a matter of debate that has never been tested in court, but Apple thinks there's at least some risk there, and that the risk isn't worth taking.
This is also why ZSH is now the default shell on the Mac. ZSH never switched to GPL V3, so it was either that, remaining on some god-awful old Bash version, or making their own.
Apple has restrictions about what software on the system you can modify as a user and how, in the name of security. GPL 3 is unfriendly to such restrictions. Whether what Apple is doing on the Mac specifically violates GPL is, well, a matter of debate that has never been tested in court, but Apple thinks there's at least some risk there, and that the risk isn't worth taking.
This is also why ZSH is now the default shell on the Mac. ZSH never switched to GPL V3, so it was either that, remaining on some god-awful old Bash version, or making their own.