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key
bash-exception-gpl
short_name
Bash exception to GPL
name
Bash exception to GPL
category
Copyleft
owner
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
notes
this used with GPL 1.0 and 2.0. It was removed from the V3 text https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/COPYING?id=3185942a5234e26ab13fa02f9c51d340cec514f8
is_exception
True
spdx_license_key
LicenseRef-scancode-bash-exception-gpl-2.0
text_urls
license_text
The Free Software Foundation has exempted Bash from the requirement of
Paragraph 2c of the General Public License.  This is to say, there is
no requirement for Bash to print a notice when it is started
interactively in the usual way.  We made this exception because users
and standards expect shells not to print such messages.  This
exception applies to any program that serves as a shell and that is
based primarily on Bash as opposed to other GNU software.