[Toybox] awk (Re: ps down, top to go)

[dmccunney]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Andy Chu <andychup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kernighan Awk (updated 2012) - 8K lines.  Lucent BSD? license.  Yacc grammar.

According to the README in the source

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This looks usable in Toybox to me.

Brian is a professor of computer science at Princeton these days.  The
current source resides on his Princeton server, at
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/index.html  He can be
reached at bwk at cs.princeton.edu

> I'm guessing it's not possible for toybox to borrow code from it
> because of the license, but I wonder about the Lucent license.  The
>lexer is 582 lines of clean looking C code (it's Kernighan, so I guess
> we all know his style :) ), which is not insignificant!

I asked Kernighan, and got the following reply:

<quote>
Hi, Dennis --

IANAL, of course, but I certainly would have no objection, and I
suspect there is no one left at Lucent (now Alcatel now Nokia)
who would even know this program existed, let alone care.  Whether
it's the best code is an entirely different issue -- it's pretty
grimy inside.  The main merit is that it isn't very big (but neither
was the busybox version if I recall).
</quote>

*He* certainly wouldn't mind.  :-)
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Dennis
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