Re: COPYING: Copyright information mentions bash

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On 19/06/2022 07:03, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote:
Quoting the relevant paragraphs:

This file is part of GNU Bash, the Bourne Again SHell.

Bash is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.

Bash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

Yes, dash makes use of bash's mksignames.c at build time. This is noted above the bit you have quoted. Including copyrighted code from bash requires including bash's copyright notice.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk



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