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"Forking to shell is the only way to reuse bash's code." well, the other obvius way is to license this piece of code as GPLv2.

• yetihehe 12y ago
  AFAIK this is THE reason for GPL. So that you either release your code and contribute to open source or suffer from slower access methods.
  • feld 12y ago
    The BSDs doesn't ship with bash and their wordexp shelling out to /bin/sh doesn't suffer, so I don't see how this is a reason for the GPL.
    • yetihehe 12y ago
      Probably I've written it not clearly enough: "Reason for GPL not allowing you to use code in your own programs, but allowing use through exec: you either release your code and contribute to open source or suffer from slower access methods."
      • feld 12y ago
        ahh, ok; that's clearer
• tedunangst 12y ago
  Which would require libc to be GPL, something not even glibc does.