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Re: cat and sleep as builtins?

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From: Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Miek Gieben <miek@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: cat and sleep as builtins?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:14:11 -0700
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On 2008-09-14 at 09:17 +0200, Miek Gieben wrote:
> If there is interest I'm willing to port: cat, sleep, head, cut,
> with appropriate documentation from Bash to Zsh.

Porting code from Bash to Zsh isn't license compatible.  Bash is GPL,
Zsh is under a BSDish license.  Using Bash's documentation and testing
the behaviour is one thing, but porting the code directly would be a
violation of the Bash license.

-Phil

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- cat and sleep as builtins?
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