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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on August 19, 2016, 10:50:46 am

Title: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: jr2 on August 19, 2016, 10:50:46 am
o.O

Well this is, uh, cool, I guess:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/microsoft-open-sources-powershell-brings-it-to-linux-and-os-x/
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 19, 2016, 11:02:28 am
I can't see this gaining much ground except for compatibility; who's going to bother redesigning the vast Unix ecosystem of tools based on text stream interfaces to work with Powershell's object model?
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: jr2 on August 19, 2016, 11:20:06 am
It's probably more for cross-platform portability for projects already set up in Windows PowerShell.
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 19, 2016, 11:39:39 am
That's what I meant by 'except for compatibility'. I don't think anyone will be starting any new projects with this (especially when you could use the new POSIX subsystem for Windows instead).
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: S-99 on August 20, 2016, 12:40:28 am
They're probably releasing some or none of the code. Remind anyone open xml for office 2007 up?
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: The E on August 20, 2016, 03:13:44 am
They're releasing all the code. You can check it for yourself here: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: Ghostavo on August 20, 2016, 08:22:38 am
They are probably doing this for their Azure clients.
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: S-99 on August 20, 2016, 12:17:17 pm
Now i'm curious what kind of opensource license it is. Is it the normal kind where you can make a fork and call it your own as long as you give credit to the creator? I wanna open my presents!
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 20, 2016, 01:10:29 pm
It says right there that it's MIT licensed
Title: Re: Microsoft Open-Sourcing PowerShell, allowing it on OSX and Linux
Post by: S-99 on August 21, 2016, 12:34:17 am
Cool beans.
MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
Quote from: opensource.org mit license
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
If anyone - individual or company - releases software/source code with an MIT license, it means that anyone else - individual or company can "deal in the Software without restriction". So long as the copyright notice stays in tact, they are pretty much able to do as they please.

Fork worthy. Now to see what people need powershell over bash ;)