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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] libbash licensing
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEE2041.8060207@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEE1F46.1080000@gentoo.org>

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On 18.12.2011 19:13, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata generation,
>> data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite low level.
> 
> By the way, I've always wondered why libbash is separate from the
> "upstream" bash.
> 
> Have you considered contributing to the upstream bash to convert the
> shell itself to a more library-oriented design (somewhat similar to
> LLVM), so that you have a guarantee that the lib and the shell stay in sync?
> 

The main reason is that Portage is GPL-2 and bash upstream is GPL-3.
Unless someone is willing to do the work to get Portage to GPL-3 or FSF
to get bash GPL-2 then those two will not mix.

Regards,
Petteri


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 11:06 [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo Gaurav Saxena
2011-12-14 18:05 ` Christian Ruppert
2011-12-14 18:14   ` "C. Bergström"
2011-12-15 18:07   ` Gaurav Saxena
2011-12-19 17:46     ` Christian Ruppert
2011-12-14 18:29 ` Alec Warner
2011-12-15 18:09   ` Gaurav Saxena
2011-12-22  4:43   ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-12-22 10:52     ` Rich Freeman
2011-12-22 11:11       ` Francesco Riosa
2011-12-22 15:55         ` Michał Górny
2011-12-22 16:09           ` Rich Freeman
2011-12-22 17:40             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-12-18 17:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2011-12-18 17:13   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-12-18 17:17     ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2011-12-18 17:45     ` Michał Górny
2011-12-19 18:14 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2012-01-02 14:33   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."

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