Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:33:32 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <ahjt0c$1ii4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <xzpit36oq9o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207231315.g6NDFCKB059227@dotar.thuvia.org>
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Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> wrote: > ksh93 would also help the standards effort. ksh93 has an unacceptable license. The legalese is impenetrable, but it appears you can't redistribute the source without the receiver explicitly acknowledging the license; AT&T can revoke the license; etc. This was clearly written by corporate lawyers in a mindset entirely different from that of the Open Source community. (ksh93 also ships with an idiosyncratic build system from hell. They try to be ultra-portable, but the result is extremely fickle and the port keeps breaking. We can't run the regression tests against the compiled excutable unless somebody dives even further into the mess of AT&T's parallel code universe, but I suspect if we could the results would be discouraging. Speaking as the maintainer of the port, I certainly advise against people using ksh93 for anything serious.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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