[correct_horse]

Most non-copyleft (permissive free software and proprietary software) tries to stay as far away as possible from the GPLv3 license. Because of this, macOS ships gnu nano 2.0.6 whereas the latest is 5.8. FreeBSD doesn't even have nano installed by default.

[vermaden]

FreeBSD has `/usr/bin/ee` (Easy Editor) so it does not need GNU Nano. But you can install GNU Nano with:

    # pkg install nano