[PATCH 8/9] doc/bash.1: Recast lead sentence.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Mention (Stephen) Bourne and his shell's origin in Unix.  The Bourne
shell, like the rest of Seventh Edition Unix, has been Free Software
(albeit GPL-incompatible) for a couple of decades now.  It should
therefore be okay to more clearly cite precedent without RMS
materializing to chide us for uttering the name of Voldemort.
---
 doc/bash.1 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
index 5811e2ce..e82c5329 100644
--- a/doc/bash.1
+++ b/doc/bash.1
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ .SH COPYRIGHT
 .if t Bash is Copyright \(co 1989-2024 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B Bash
-is an \fBsh\fP-compatible command language interpreter that
-executes commands read from the standard input, from a string,
+is a reimplementation of the Bourne shell,
+a Unix command language interpreter
+that executes instructions read from the standard input,
+from a string,
 or from a file.
 .B Bash
 also incorporates useful features from the \fIKorn\fP and \fIC\fP
-- 
2.30.2

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