Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:26:29 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <200110251926.f9PJQT0H077031@atg.aciworldwide.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> of "Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:14:34 CDT." <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org>
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> Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > bawk? Any drawbacks? It's the One True AWK, ala Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. See http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html for details. The license seems compatible (enough) with the BSD license: Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997 All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the name Lucent Technologies or any of its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. LUCENT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL LUCENT OR ANY OF ITS ENTITIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. I would certainly prefer to see the reference implementation in the base system. And bugs reported to the authors do appear to get fixed. --lyndon >What about all the people who hoarded tonnes of spam in their bunkers? I hoard spam on my hard drive. When I heard about the coming Y2K worries, I downloaded a lifetime supply from the net. -- Charlie Gibbs in alt.folklore.computers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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