From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 4 16:46:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C14237B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:46:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D68218C97; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:46:25 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f250kPu19239; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:46:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:46:25 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ksh93 Message-ID: <20010304184625.A19202@hamlet.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <20010303091958.A68223@spawn.nectar.com> <200103031650.f23GoWS12086@cwsys.cwsent.com> <97uj2b$2k3$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <97uj2b$2k3$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:28:11PM +0000 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:28:11PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Considering the AT&T license, is this even an option? The actual > license text is impenetrable for me, but here are some excerpts > from : I don't pretend to understand it, either. However, in a Slashdot interview, David Korn said: The primary drawback to ksh has been that it was proprietary. This has recently changed however. The new AT&T open source license allows ksh source and binaries to be shipped as part of the system and is now just beginning to start showing up in Linux systems; for example the latest slackware. The source or binary for over a dozen architectures can be downloaded from (http://www.research.att.com/sw/download). Hopefully other systems will start shipping ksh93 and start using this for /bin/sh as well. So although I don't understand the license, I think David's intent is pretty clear. Should we decide that importing ksh93 is worthwhile (as I think it would be), then I think it would be prudent to ask David or AT&T for a statement just to be on the safe side. > There is also a termination clause. That might be more trouble. Personally I don't think such clauses hold much water, but some reasonable people disagree. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message