[Info-vax] bash (Re: BASIC (was Re: 64-bit))

[Dan Cross]

In article <memo.20240116175256.3116K at jgd.cix.co.uk>,
John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <uo63ei$1fo5f$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>wrote:
>
>> Apple switched from old bash (GPL V2) to zsh (MIT) instead of to
>> new bash (GPL V3).
>> 
>> The internet per Google search seems a bit unclear about exactly 
>> why.
>> 
>> Some say that Apple do not like the patent stuff in GPL V3
>> not present in GPL V2.
>
>They probably don't. Their attitude to patents is interesting. Their
>developer agreement, which you have to sign to be able to run iOS code
>you're developing on iDevices you've bought and paid for, terminates
>immediately and automatically if you sue Apple for patent infringement.
>That's part of the agreement. 
>
>> Some say that Apple want to sign executables on iOS and that
>> is incompatible with GPL right to modify and replace.
>
>They do not include bash in iOS, at all. It's not hidden, it really isn't
>there. However, they may well want to sign executables on macOS. 

Apple ships bash with macOS; it's just not the default shell.
Anyway, if someone wanted to ship a Unix shell with OpenVMS and
they were worried about GPLv3, they could always ship zsh or
tcsh.

	- Dan C.