3.82 was also GPLv3.

nonchalance · on Oct 9, 2013

OSX ships with 3.81:

    $ make --version
    GNU Make 3.81
    Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
    There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

(which predates GPLv3)

adestefan · on Oct 9, 2013

Yes. I was pointing out that GPLv3 is not unique to make 4.0. In fact, 3.91 will never be default on OS X because it too is GPLv3.