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Date:      16 Apr 2000 14:03:34 +0200
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <8dca6m$2ijc$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <8dap2t$1ome$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004151546090.3346-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> wrote:

> So take it out and put bash in instead, and make bash the
> default user shell.

bash's license (GPL) makes it exceedingly unattractive for inclusion
into the base system as long as there are alternatives.

Although Linux converts tend to ask for bash, I'm under the impression
that most of them use only a minute fraction of bash's features
and in fact aren't particular aware of the possibilities bash
offers--and even more so a current version of bash would offer
rather than the ancient 1.14.7 still shipped with many Linux
distributions.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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