Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3

[forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk]

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>>problem is that you have to get proprietary info out of Sun and that
>>would kill any chance of a release.

no, you wouldn't. that's the annoying thing.
there are public ports of other systems to the sparcs (and SGIs) that reveal the details.
unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily remove the restrictions on the older plan 9 code.


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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:23:48 +0100
Message-ID: <006201c08ae9$ca2354a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>

From: Mike Acar <mike@trolltech.com>
> > You need a 2nd edition license to get the SUN material, and once you've
> > got it you can't expect any work based on it to be included in updates to
the
> > 3rd edition because we don't have the rights to release it that way.
>
> Meaning that the most we could do with the 2nd edition code would be look it
> over before reimplementing its functionality for the 3rd edition, and even
that
> I think I'd be somewhat hesitant to do; getting a SPARC booting but being
> unable to release the code seems a bit of a waste.

err, if you had a 2nd ed license you couldn't release the code under the
terms of the 3rd ed licence.  i'm not even sure that 'looking' at the code
would wouldn't taint a release to a 3rd ed site.

now, if you did a 3rd ed port to the sparc then i would imagine you
could release this work.  however, i am not a lawyer.  i think the
problem is that you have to get proprietary info out of Sun and that
would kill any chance of a release.

i believe the phrase 'like pulling teeth' was used in reference to
getting certain information from certain vendors.