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> A tiny little bit of GPL3 software won't kill them, and surely shipping up to date utilities is easier than backporting security fixes over nearly two decades.

I don’t disagree at all but I’m not a lawyer at Apple, so I can’t speak to their general risk or not.

The good news is that the zsh included is at least recent and it is (thankfully) trivial to install and alias a newer version of bash, but I have totally been bit by this myself.




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