This seems similar to how macos has bash, but it has ancient bash. Allegedly the reason is that Apple is fine with GPL2 but not GPL3.
Though at that point I kinda wonder why they bother shipping bash at all, when their default shell is zsh, and it's entirely possible to have system shell scripts run by the BSD-licensed dash, rather than bash.
There's probably also something to be said about the choice of running ancient GNU make rather than BSD make, but I don't know enough about the differences to say it.
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Personally I like being able to rely on Apple's software supply chain for these tools since they're so fundamental. They're sitting there on the signed system volume and cannot be tampered with, and they haven't been changed in a decade or more.
Though at that point I kinda wonder why they bother shipping bash at all, when their default shell is zsh, and it's entirely possible to have system shell scripts run by the BSD-licensed dash, rather than bash.
There's probably also something to be said about the choice of running ancient GNU make rather than BSD make, but I don't know enough about the differences to say it.