On Aug 11, 2024, at 00:03, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > The MacPorts version uses MacPorts supplied libraries (other than libSystem). > The macOS version uses macOS supplied libraries. (ultimately from the same > open source projects, but potentially different versions and build options, > so not identical code)
It's *not* the same software. MacPorts has GNU bc 1.07 which is licensed GPL-3. macOS used to have GNU bc 1.06 released back in 2000 under GPL-2. Apple has switched to someone else's bc implementation in recent macOS probably because as we know Apple is allergic to GPL-3.
