Mention (Stephen) Bourne and his shell's origin in Unix. The Bourne shell, like the rest of Seventh Edition Unix, has been Free Software (albeit GPL-incompatible) for a couple of decades now. It should therefore be okay to more clearly cite precedent without RMS materializing to chide us for uttering the name of Voldemort. --- doc/bash.1 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1 index 5811e2ce..e82c5329 100644 --- a/doc/bash.1 +++ b/doc/bash.1 @@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ .SH COPYRIGHT .if t Bash is Copyright \(co 1989-2024 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. .SH DESCRIPTION .B Bash -is an \fBsh\fP-compatible command language interpreter that -executes commands read from the standard input, from a string, +is a reimplementation of the Bourne shell, +a Unix command language interpreter +that executes instructions read from the standard input, +from a string, or from a file. .B Bash also incorporates useful features from the \fIKorn\fP and \fIC\fP -- 2.30.2
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