Re: Favorite Tom Lane quotes

tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> We really need a favorite Tom Lane quotes thread. Mine is (roughly):
>
>> We don't support that, but you're free to try it, you just get to keep
>> both pieces if it breaks.
>
> Hate to disillusion you, but that's a standard comment around Red Hat.
> I have no idea who said it first, but twasn't me.

There's a license that has that as its main clause. See the end of
the document..

http://man.he.net/man8/chat

An authoritative source for the original seems to have evaporated, but
here's a direct "inheritor" implemented in Expect:
http://expect.nist.gov/scripts/chat

A quick web search indicates that ucLinux seems to include "old style
chat" as also does DragonflyBSD...
--
select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'linuxdatabases.info';
http://linuxfinances.info/info/linux.html
"The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public
license. If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces."
(Copyright notice for the chat program)