RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 27 23:57:55 PDT 2003


"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> > For most of the things you mention, they are included in
> > "The Programmer's Workbench" from Bell Labs, which is now
> > available for free download, including ksh93, awk, troff,
> > etc..
> >
> > Why not use the real things, if you are going to replace the
> > GNU replacements?
> 
> Maybe because AT&T's licenses are over the "onerous" threshold too.
> Eg, ksh93's at http://www.research.att.com/sw/license/ast-open.html

Get it under the new Plan 9 license from Plan 9 sources, instead.

-- Terry


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