Re: No Bison 3 in untainted macOS installs

[Akim Demaille]

> Le 15 déc. 2018 à 11:05, Uxio Prego <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Does anybody know when Bison 3 is going to be added to
> macOS?
> 
> Fortunately other projects such as Homebrew allow a
> straightforward selection of a cutting edge alternative Bison
> under `/usr/local/`, however isn't it a bit sad to add Homebrew
> as a dependency to some other software if it would be added
> **only** for de facto upgrading the ancient Bison 2.3 ~2006 to
> the contemporary Bison 3?

$ git log COPYING | head -5
commit f16b08196c780556cbf50691e2944960aebc46f6
Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Aug 15 20:21:33 2007 +0000

    Update to GPLv3.


$ git tag --contains f16b08196c780556cbf50691e2944960aebc46f6 | head -5
GCC_2002-10-11
libbitset_2003_06_08
v2.3b
v2.4
v2.4.1

I was unaware that Bison was shipped as part of macOS.  Apple
cannot stand the GPLv3, so there's no surprise they are stuck
with 2.3, and won't change.  Although there's no license on the
generated code.