I am new to the FreeBSD world, and I am more interested in stability, order and documentation than licensing. That is the reason why I switched from Linux.
I was also asking myself why bash is not default in FreeBSD and OpenBSD but, since it is so easy to change shell, I found it to be a non-issue.
I am gratefull to
walterbyrd to pose the question and to
sidetone for his secure answer.
Maybe this information should be put into the FreeBSD Handbook since I think a lot of migrants from the Linux world ask themselves this question. Otherwise, sooner or later someone else will ask again
In particular, a good position to write something I think would be here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/shells.html
Where I think
many newcomers land and could be made aware of the licensing issue
even if they did not arrive to FreeBSD for licensing reasons.
Bye
Nicola