On: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

[kchoudhu]

Why would they touch GPLv3 code when perfectly good BSD tools available from FreeBSD?

[ninkendo → kchoudhu]

If you're being serious here: bash is IMO the most glaringly old utility you get in an OSX install, and it's GPLv3.

[kchoudhu → ninkendo]

There's more to a userland than the shell, and there are plenty of shells out there that are not encumbered by GPLv3.

[super_mario → ninkendo]

Actually bash 3.2 is GPL v2.0. Later versions switched to GPL v3 and this is why Apple is not updating to newer version.

Give it a few more years and there will be no one left at Apple that has any clue what bash is.