On Wed, 15 Mar 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Is there any market for System V at this point?
Unlikely, but ... companies are funny about IP rights. A number of us
are working on a more general solution that if we can identify the holders
of the System V IP might help solve this issue. As my father you to say,
"make haste ... slowly."
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Certainly if the whole issue could be cleared up favorably, like 3-clause
or even GNU, my rewrite would be less necessary to me and I could just
clean up the code that already exists.
Rewriting ls(1) is major yikes on trikes.
-uso.