NetBSD has modified their pdksh to automatically escape shell characters when tab-completing. This is an extremely useful feature, especially if you share files with Windows, which loves spaces in filenames. I have extracted the relevant portions of the NetBSD patch (which is BSD license, so it can be re-licensed as GPL) and it is referneced at the URL above. I've been running it myself on severl linux systems (including RedHat 6.2, a number of LFS systems, and gentoo 1.3a with gcc 3.1), and it seems stable.
If the patch is licensed by the NetBSD folks, then adding it to the pdksh source is not quite that simple. pdksh is completely public domain, which is *not* the same as BSD (3 or 4 clause version) or GPL. IIRC, "I" cannot place additional restrictions on the distribution of code, and therefore the patch needs to be excempt from licensing (as in, it is also public domain), or we cannot distribute it. As a second point, content licensed under the BSD license *cannot* be relicensed under the GPL without the authors of the code doing so themselves. If you feel these statements are in error, please provide specific details as to why. Also, the URL provided does not work -- please supply attachments via the attachment interface, unless they are too large or unwieldy to do so. Thank you!
I'm not a lawyer. I was under the impression BSD could be relicensed by anyone to GPL, but if I'm wrong, then the patch can't be used, and I'll continue to apply it myself. I couldn't get the attachment interface to work, hense the URL (my web server had died, sorry. It's fixed now.)
Well, licenses certainly can't be changed by anybody but the copyright holders. However, pdksh is specifically licensed as 'public domain'. *If* NetBSD applied and/or created this patch, then the patch, too, must fall under the public domain for most purposes. Can you point me to a NetBSD source tree or whatever that contains this code?
