Re: e

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jean-Christophe Helary writes:
>
>  > Since al this happened in the same day I guess I changed of version
>  > without realizing it (like the OSX standard version and then the
>  > brew version).
>
> My Yosemite system provides 22.1.1, which is kinda ancient (copyright
> 2007!)

Yes.  I guess Apple doesn't like GPLv3 (which is release on 29 June 2007):

localhost:bin xfq$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

localhost:bin xfq$ ./emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

localhost:bin xfq$ ./rsync --version
rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
<http://rsync.samba.org/>

localhost:bin xfq$ ./screen --version
Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06

localhost:bin xfq$ ./makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

localhost:bin xfq$ ./groff --version
GNU groff version 1.19.2
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

localhost:bin xfq$ ./diff --version
diff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.1
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

localhost:bin xfq$ ./patch --version
patch 2.5.8
Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Although GNU nano seems to be an exception (it's the only exception I found):

localhost:bin xfq$ ./nano --version
 GNU nano version 2.0.6 (compiled 15:38:45, Aug 22 2015)
 Email: address@hidden Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
 Compiled options: --disable-nls --enable-color --enable-extra
--enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc --enable-utf8

Maybe Apple has (had?) plans for patent lawsuits or TiVoization.  I
don't know.