On Wed, 15 Mar 2023, Clem Cole wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:22 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there any market for System V at this point?
>
> Unlikely, but ... companies are funny about IP rights.    A number of us
> are working on a more general solution that if we can identify the holders
> of the System V IP might help solve this issue.    As my father you to say,
> "make haste ... slowly."
> ᐧ
>

Certainly if the whole issue could be cleared up favorably, like 3-clause 
or even GNU, my rewrite would be less necessary to me and I could just 
clean up the code that already exists.

Rewriting ls(1) is major yikes on trikes.

-uso.