Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:34:09PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> [2002-11-11 21:19:04 +0000]:
> > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> > >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial
> > >proprietary systems have it available.
> > >[...]
> > >In order to find a Real Thing copy of the Bourne shell you would need
> > >to run on a commercial proprietary system which still has the legacy
> > >executables on the system.
> >
> > Well, not really. Here ya go:
> > http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Henry_Spencer_v7/
> > [...]
> > Anybody want to do a Debian/V7 ? ;)
>
> Sweet! Thanks for posting that. But I hate you now because I will be
> losing a lot of sleep staying up late to get that booted. :-)
>
> But none of those sources are free either. Just because you have
> access to the source code does not make the source free software.
Wrong. Caldera (who now own Unix), have released the sources of old
unices under a BSD-style license (the one with advertising clause)
Have a look at :
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
(Also look at http://www.tuhs.org/)
Frank
>
> Bob
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