[CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Fri Apr 24 13:37:38 UTC 2015


Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:

> > 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 at 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.

OK, I remeber again: You had to click "accept" on the web to get your copy of 
the source. This need was removed in 2001.

Jörg

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