Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:10:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shells Message-ID: <31345.955883432@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:29:16 PDT." <20000415182916.U4381@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> Two reasons of the top of my head: GPL'd and gratuitously incompatible. GPL'd things go into /usr/src/gnu - no big deal. If we were overly squeamish about the GPL then we wouldn't have "grep" or a compiler toolchain either, among other things, and I doubt anybody's arguing for killing those. The ash shell is just bad enough that I'd consider a change of license for a truly functional shell out-of-the-box to be a more than acceptable trade-off. As to the second argument, you'll have to explain yourself, sonny. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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