[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/19/15 6:32 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 7:23:10 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>>
>> So get Perl, Python or Lua into the base distro, and with a decent set
>> of libraries, and -- like what is offered for DCL -- allow an easy path
>> for direct invocation.
>
> My understanding is that the various legal departments don't want to include GPL code on the base distribution with the fear that it would require exposing all the source for all the pieces on the kit.  That was why the separate DVD with Apache, GNV, etc. was created.
>
> Personally (although I'm not a lawyer), I don't think that having an image with GPL doesn't taint the other images.  However, adding regex() into the CRTL would be a problem.
>

The regular expression library libpcre is BSD, not GPL and is probably
more what you'd want than the one that ships with GNU libc anyway. With
Perl you have your choice of the Artistic or GPL licenses. I think
Artistic is a little less restrictive, but I am not a lawyer either.