Cosmetic JFFS patch.
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Quoted 8 lines · Chuck Wolber
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Does sed tell you who programmed it on startup?
Awk?
Perl?
Groff?
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Gcc?
See a pattern here?
Yeah, the output of these programms are usually parsed by other programs. If they barked version info, that'd be extra code that has to go into *EVERY* script that uses them. You're not using the kernel in the same capacity.
A counter example that does both, bc does tell us who wrote it every time we run it (most annoying) and is smart enough to know when it is not talking to a tty.
% bc
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
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3
% bc > test
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% cat test
3
%I think listing driver versions on boot with perhaps some diagnostic info if appropriate is useful. Names and copyrights should be in the source.
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A counter example that does both, bc does tell us who wrote it every time we run it (most annoying) and is smart enough to know when it is not talking to a tty.
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% bc
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
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3
% bc > test
1+2
% cat test
3
%That may be because of clause (2.c) of the GPL version 2.
- Hari
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Quoted 2 lines · Stuart Lynne
I think listing driver versions on boot with perhaps some diagnostic info if appropriate is useful. Names and copyrights should be in the source.
Yup, if you go out and buy a book, the copyright business is in small print inside, not under the title on the dust-cover..
Now, I'll just have to pretend they don't put the authors name on the front in huge letters, and my analogy will be complete. Hmmm.
Craig.
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