Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!heron.qz.se!s1039 From: s1039@heron.qz.se (Lars Magnusson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Korn Shell is NOT public domain! Message-ID: <9103181956.AA21609@heron.qz.se> Date: 18 Mar 91 21:56:38 GMT References: <307@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1991Mar13.120857.12127@mack.uit.no> <18356@milton.u.washington.edu> <13@hlthnt.UUCP> Organization: QZ UniversitetsData AB - KOM conference system Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: <268@raysnec.UUCP> In article <268@raysnec.UUCP> you write: > > Perhaps this little mantra should go in the FAQ. Yes, KSH is a >nice shell. Yes, more vendors have chosen to offer it. No, you can't have the >source code - not legally, anyway - unless you license it. Same goes for >binaries. > >----------- >uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech Worked in Denmark some years ago, where I succeded to get our salesrep. from an ex-AT&T-partner (OLI, who else) to deliver ksh binary to our 3B2's, and as I understood, didn't AT&T care, if they gave away it as long it weren't in source. And if so, with a price of 3000 from the AT&T Toolchest (what ever that is), the vendors definily could give us the true ksh in the bargin. Start pesting the vendors with demands that ksh is include instead of bsh, as it should. SCO and SUN are some of those that could do better (or could have done earlier). In Europe the situation normaly is worse, since we gets the updates approx. 1 year after US in many cases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Magnusson ! EUNET : lmag@z.amu.se Dept. of Computing ! KOM : s1039 (s1039@heron.QZ.SE) AMU Jamtland ! Tel : + 46 63 14 56 00 Box 603 ! Fax : + 46 63 12 33 42 832 01 Froson (Ostersund) ! Sweden ! (Ostersund - candidate for Winter Olympics 1998) ==========================================================================