Hi all,

I came across a "variant" of the Caldera license. Here is what we have on SPDX: https://spdx.org/licenses/Caldera.html

But this project - http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html has this license but it omits the first paragraph and next few lines. That part alone isn't a full match otherwise. (see attached)

I'm wondering if we should made that first part optional as it does seem to be very specific code, as listed.

The Heirloom Bourne Shell project is used in Fedora, so that's how it came up. I don't know if it's used elsewhere or if this variant of the license, but any info on that would be helpful!

Thanks,
Jilayne

Op 25 okt. 2021 om 23:24 heeft Warner Losh <imp@...> het volgende geschreven:

The Heirloom Bourne Shell project is used in Fedora, so that's how it came up. I don't know if it's used elsewhere or if this variant of the license, but any info on that would be helpful!

I wonder why they are using the Caldera license?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_Project

Did they harvest these files from the 7th Edition of Unix, or did Sun license these and Caldera made them put this license on things? The version 7 /bin/sh was included in the grant of the original license, and the System V version was excluded which is what the OpenSolaris one is based on if it came from Sun's repo... But I've not done the software archaeology to know from whence this project started their sources...