Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
Bash was bigger than ksh in the non-commercial Unix world because of ksh88 licensing problems. Back in 1998 I wanted to teach a ksh
scripting
course to my local LUG, but AT&T (David Korn himsef!) told me I couldn't give people copies of the shell to take home.
AFAIR, ksh was OSS (but not using an OSI approved license) since 1997. Since
In 1998 each user had to sign a license; you couldn't give away copies to other people.
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:09:30 -0400 (EDT) From: David Korn dgk@research.att.com
If you are going to make copies for use at your course there is no problem. However, if users are to get their own copies to take home with them, then we need to get each of them to accpet the license agreement that is on the web.
[ snip other options, including printing out the license and having people sign it and sending the results back! ]
Fascinating. As I'd been in Sun OS, and started doing admin work when it became Solaris, I'd missed that bit. A question: did the license agreement include payment, or was it just restrictive on distribution?
Oh, and to clarify what I said before, our production shell scripts, in the mid-nineties, were corporately required to go to ksh.
I didn't know bash till I got to CentOS (I don't remember it in RH 9...), and it's what I prefer (my manager and some other folks here like zsh), but bash lets me use all my c-shell-isms that I learned when I started in UNIX in '91.
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