Intent to package `awk'
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I intent to package a program called "awk", which I downloaded from Brian
Kernighan's home page :-)
This is "the one true awk", i.e. the version of awk described in "The AWK
Programming Language", by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
(Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X), and I think it would be an
interesting thing to have (it could be used to compare performance among
other awk implementations, for example).
Copyright follows:
/****************************************************************
Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
documentation, and that the name Lucent Technologies or any of
its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining
to distribution of the software without specific, written prior
permission.
LUCENT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
[ snipped standard disclaimer about lack of warranty etc. ]
Questions:
1) Is this DFSG-compliant?
2) How should we name it? awk is already a generic name which is handled
via the alternatives mechanism. I suppose it should be something like
/usr/bin/tota "The One True Awk"... or /usr/bin/the-one-true-awk
Suggestions?
[ I would give it a default priority of 0 (gawk has 10 and mawk has 20) ].
3) Version number? (1998?)
Thanks.
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