Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-25 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Andy Elvey wrote: > On 25/07/12 16:06, John Floren wrote: > (snip) > > Just write the code, nobody cares. The manual pages define an interface, > and you're going to implement it. The manual pages are copyrighted, sure, > because they're written works and are aut

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread Andy Elvey
On 25/07/12 16:06, John Floren wrote: (snip) Just write the code, nobody cares. The manual pages define an interface, and you're going to implement it. The manual pages are copyrighted, sure, because they're written works and are automatically protected by copyright. Besides the recent Google v

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread Jens Staal
2012/7/25 Skip Tavakkolian : > For a dead OS, Plan 9 sure gets around ;) > > Plan 9, a nurse-log of modern computing. > > -Skip > > On Jul 24, 2012, at 9:10 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >>> that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system >>> for a long time. >> >> h. don't

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
For a dead OS, Plan 9 sure gets around ;) Plan 9, a nurse-log of modern computing. -Skip On Jul 24, 2012, at 9:10 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system >> for a long time. > > h. don't tell my employer. > > - erik >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system > for a long time. h. don't tell my employer. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> Btw - I clicked on the "copyright" link at the bottom, but the link is dead > - nothing but a 404 page error. that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system for a long time. from my (admittedly little) experience with 9p implementations, the ones done "outside" of plan9 co

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Andy Elvey wrote: > Hi Andrey - thanks for your reply! > > On 25/07/12 14:47, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > I'm not a lawyer but I play one in comedy clubs. The first > implementation of 9p came about long before Plan 9 had a free (as in > rms) license. Nobody got

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> In looking at Tim Newsham's P9.py, he has a comment in the code - "9P > protocol implementation as documented in plan9 intro(5) and ." > ( I would likely be even more cautious and avoid looking at any header > files if possible. ) > Thanks again, Andrey - you've been very helpful! section 5 of

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread Andy Elvey
Hi Andrey - thanks for your reply! On 25/07/12 14:47, andrey mirtchovski wrote: I'm not a lawyer but I play one in comedy clubs. The first implementation of 9p came about long before Plan 9 had a free (as in rms) license. Nobody got sued, nobody died, although a few bystanders were maimed. Inte

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> (no license required to see > that!) there is, however, a copyright link at the bottom of each man page. as your lawyer [in comedy] i advise you to click it.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
I'm not a lawyer but I play one in comedy clubs. The first implementation of 9p came about long before Plan 9 had a free (as in rms) license. Nobody got sued, nobody died, although a few bystanders were maimed. My advice as your lawyer [in comedy] would be to go nuts and do whatever you want. The

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread hiro
nobody here's a lawyer.

[9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?

2012-07-24 Thread Andy Elvey
Hi everyone - I'm a first-timer here - I'm thinking of doing a "public domain" implementation (in C) of 9P. I've seen the large listing (on the cat-v site) of existing 9P implementations which are under various licenses, and so in thinking about where those people obtained the required infor