* [gentoo-dev] libbash licensing
@ 2011-12-18 17:17 99% ` Petteri Räty
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From: Petteri Räty @ 2011-12-18 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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