[Toybox] Kernighan's awk repo

[enh]

well, my lawyers are happy either way, as evidenced by the fact we've been
shipping it for years :-)

for smaller organizations that don't have the time/money to investigate a
bazillion licenses though, MIT is a lot more mainstream and a lot more
likely to be on everyone's approved list. but, yeah, IANAL so i don't know
what (if anything) the comments in the awk source mean.

inferno was relicensed MIT recently too, but their awk still has the lucent
license: https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/src/master/utils/awk/

hmm... what i _should_ be doing while i'm thinking about it is updating
AOSP's copy of one-true-awk. so if you'll excuse me, i'll be on my way :-)

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 3:50 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 8/9/21 11:33 AM, enh wrote:
> > /me wonders whether the MIT relicensing of Plan 9 means there's now an
> MIT
> > licensed descendant/sibling of one true awk?
>
> Alas, that would still be a license with the "drag this blob of text
> around" clause.
>
> But for your use, being able to say MIT instead of Lucent would probably be
> clarifying. Especially since Lucent hasn't technically existed since
> 2006...
>
> Rob
>
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