From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3 From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-flkspvnqwptoijaoobyptsjfvg" Message-Id: <20010130192602.18E6B19A0F@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:24:35 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 552ad448-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-flkspvnqwptoijaoobyptsjfvg Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>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. --upas-flkspvnqwptoijaoobyptsjfvg Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from finch-punt-12.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.36]) by lavoro; Tue Jan 30 19:47:15 GMT 2001 Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 980879314:10:13652:0; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:28:34 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa1010873; 30 Jan 2001 18:27 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 00BF019A02; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:26:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 1D3E7199FD for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:24:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 33633879 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2001 18:24:58 -0000 Received: from d010.dhcp212-185.cybercable.fr (HELO boyd) ([212.198.185.10]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; 30 Jan 2001 18:24:58 -0000 Message-ID: <006201c08ae9$ca2354a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010130145953Z114466-4593+91@trolltech.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Running Version 2 along with Version 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:23:48 +0100 From: Mike Acar > > 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. --upas-flkspvnqwptoijaoobyptsjfvg--