[Info-vax] GNV

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/11/16 9:57 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-09-11 14:48:13 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:
>
>> On 9/11/16 8:31 AM, IanD wrote:
>>
>>> Is gnu released as part of OpenVMS now? Isn't it a separate
>>> download?  Why? Why isn't it part of the standard OpenVMS
>>> distribution and install?
>>
>> I assume you mean GNV, not gnu? Some of it is probably covered by
>> GPLv3 now and might pose problems for inclusion with the base OS. But,
>> generally speaking, yes, why not? Apple has something like 200 open
>> source packages distributed with macOS, which is close to two orders
>> of magnitude more than VMS has without extra installations.
>
> I've not encountered any GPL3 source code in OS X / macOS.

Right. Apple has steadily eliminated GPL-based packages and stayed with
down-revision versions of some packages in order to remain under GPLv2
rather than GPLv3. bash, for example is at 3.2 on macOS whereas the
current upstream version is 4.3.

GNV, on the other hand, has embraced the latest versions of GNU software
and is now at or pretty close to current for several key packages. But
that means they are GPLv3, and, while IANAL, I think that means they
could not be included as part of the base install of a proprietary OS.