Interesting. On Monterey it's still GNU 1.06. On Ventura, it's bc 4.0.2 Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc <https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc>
supposedly with more features than the GNU version. > On Aug 11, 2024, at 03:08, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. >
