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Similarly, Apple has resolved the increasingly-aged stock Bash install, eschewing Bash's subsequent GPLv3 licencing, by making zsh the default login shell.

I'd like to see zsh also adopt GPLv3 to call Apple's bluff.



So would I for the lolz but they would probably just switch to fish or dash

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/COPYING

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/COPY... (Default Ubuntu shell since 6.10)


dash isn't a fully-featured interactive shell, and would be a major step backward from bash. At least with zsh, Apple are moving forward on a feature basis. (And I say this as someone who's still stubbornly set on bash over that newfangled zsh nonsense ;-)

I'm less familiar with fish, but based on a very fuzzy awareness, it's at least fully-featured.

I do encounter dash on a few systems. It's the default shell on my OpenWRT networking kit, for example. I've installed bash where those systems have enough storage to accommodate it.




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