Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:06:33 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <200207231706.g6NH6XOV076926@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1027442093.37094@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) > Date: Tue 23 Jul, 2002 > Subject: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) > ksh93 has an unacceptable license. The legalese is impenetrable, It sure is. > but it appears you can't redistribute the source without the receiver > explicitly acknowledging the license; OK, I thought that requirement had weakened recently now that you don't have to accept a license to fetch it from the web site, but I guess not. > AT&T can revoke the license; Eek, I missed that! > This was clearly written by corporate lawyers in a mindset > entirely different from that of the Open Source community. I'm more interested in the intentions of those who had the lawyers write up an open source license for it. > (ksh93 also ships with an idiosyncratic build system from hell. That doesn't help, sure. > Speaking as the > maintainer of the port, I certainly advise against people using > ksh93 for anything serious.) Oh well, thanks for putting us straight. I'll return to my "polish /bin/sh up a bit with a list type and implement dynamically loadable builtins" view of the world, until such time as an obvious replacement shell comes along. I think many of the issues regarding maintaining an arbitrary third party scripting environment in the base system would be mitigated by fairly minor enhancements to existing facilities. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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