Op 19 aug. 2016 17:51 schreef "kendell clark via arch-general" < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > hi > > I took a brief look at powershell today when I found out it had been open sourced. I looked at some of the c# source code files and they all read that they're licensed under the apache license, version 2.0. I haven't read that thing, it's probably full of legalese I wouldn't understand, but I bet it's probably lax on the patent front or microsoft wouldn't have chosen it. So we could, theoretically, get into trouble packaging it for arch, although I don't think it's likely. Of course I am not a lawyer or a programmer, this is just my two scents. Not much to worry about, any code that exceeds a two-word limit [1] is probably using some IBM patents. Software patents are a patently bad idea. As for powershell on Linux; it's a nice idea. I actually like it on Windows (especially next to batch/vbscript), and I might play with it a bit on Linux. The idea of managing Windows hosts from a Linux machine is quite interesting. [1] Yes, that was an arbitrary length. Mvg, Guus Snijders
