Comment by callalex

2 years ago

The explicit stated reason is to avoid copyleft.

Up to date BSD code would still avoid copyleft so that is not a valid explanation.

  • Maybe when uutils ship their gnu compatible version(deviations from GNU are considered bugs), macos will update.

    MIT, Rust, active development... Maybe in few years.

  • macOS Ventura ships zsh 5.9 which is latest version and was released 2022-05-14. Not sure about grep, but at least some of their unix components are up to date.