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Patents and DRM. It always comes down to that.

If Apple ships any OS X devices with DRM, they would have to have a separate build without the gplv3 bash in it. It would double support costs, maintenance and so on.

And patents. Any patents covering bash would loose value from using a GPLv3 bash. This also include any patent agreement Apple has, which include additional legal overhead.

GPLv2 vs GPLv3 is and always will be Patents and DRM.




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