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That's fair, I guess it has a potential to affect non-geek users at some level if they're using geek-supplied scripts.

I guess I just feel like the net good would be to de-bundle these non-compliant tools and get them to install upstream versions from Homebrew or MacPorts or something.

It's annoying, and I'm not one of those people that tends to be the "OMG JUST RTFM IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!", since if people are struggling with it then it is "that hard", but I feel like there isn't a solution that can satisfy all parties with this.

It seems that we either break the workflow, which makes a few of the aforementioned parties for a bit, keep bundling the old versions of these tools and leave potential security problems in there, or somehow forcing Apple to change their OS to be GPL3 compliant. For better or worse (probably worse), that last one isn't going to happen, so it feels like the lesser of the two evils is to stop bundling software that won't be getting future support.




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