Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between another computer located elsewhere on a network. The rsync command line tool has long been included on macOS, but Apple has provided the last version of rsync 2.x (rsync 2.6.9, released in November 2006) and did not update rsync past that even though rsync 3.x was released. Why not? It has to do with the version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) open source license that rsync 2.x and 3.x were released under, with rsync 2.x being released under the GPLv2 license and rsync 3.x being released under the GPLv3 license. Without going in-depth into the background legal issues, the reason for not providing rsync 3.x is that Apple decided that while it could comply with the terms of GPLv2 license with regards to rsync 2.x, it could not comply with the terms of GPLv3 license with regards to rsync 3.x. ... Read full article.