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From: "Calvin Morrison" <calvin@fastmailteam.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:11:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31d20279-bcd2-4006-8984-a5094a91c648@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24b7e982d658d5bf5d6d02fce9870678@9srv.net>

Awesome! Congrats!

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, at 9:06 AM, a@9srv.net wrote:
> We are thrilled to announce that Nokia has transferred the copyright of
> Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation. This transfer applies to all of the
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs code, from the earliest days through their final
> release.
> 
> The most exciting immediate effect of this is that the Plan 9 Foundation
> is making the historical 1st through 4th editions of Plan 9 available
> under the terms of the MIT license. These are the releases as they
> existed at the time, with minimal changes to reflect the above.
> 
> 1st and 2nd edition were never released as open source software, and
> both (but especially 1st edition) were only available to a very small
> number of people. 3rd and 4th were previously available as open source,
> but under a license which was problematic for some people (especially
> the 3rd edition). We think making these available under the MIT license
> is something that's going to be a significant benefit for all projects
> using Plan 9 code. While this doesn't automatically change the license
> on any downstream projects, and you're welcome to keep using the LPL if
> you like, you now have the option of switching to MIT, which we think
> most everyone will find preferable.
> 
> Obviously, for folks in the Plan 9 community, there isn't a way to say
> "thank you" to Bell Labs, and its various parent organizations, that's
> really adequate. None of us would be talking about any of this if it
> weren't for the work done there for decades. All of us here at the Plan
> 9 Foundation express our sincerest thanks to the team at Nokia who made
> this possible, the Plan 9 alumni who supported the effort, and the Plan
> 9 community who have kept kernels booting and the userland useful.
> 
> The historical releases are available right now at:
>         https://p9f.org/dl/
> 
> You can read Nokia's press release on the transfer here:
>         https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/plan-9-bell-labs-cyberspace/
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> Anthony Sorace
> Plan 9 Foundation

-- 
Calvin

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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-23 13:06 a
2021-03-23 13:21 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2021-03-23 13:27   ` Robert Sherwood
2021-03-23 13:36 ` baux
2021-03-23 14:11 ` Calvin Morrison [this message]
2021-03-23 14:17 ` tlaronde
2021-03-23 15:05 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-23 15:06 ` lego12239
2021-03-23 15:45 ` ori
2021-03-23 15:54   ` Marshall Conover
2021-03-23 15:57     ` Elias Howell
2021-03-23 16:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-03-23 16:34 ` Jim Manley
2021-03-23 16:44 ` Paul Ivanov
2021-03-23 17:55 ` Øyvind Jensen via 9fans
2021-03-23 18:07 ` Russ Cox
2021-03-23 18:44   ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-23 19:28   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-03-24 16:45   ` Russ Cox
2021-03-23 19:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-03-23 20:03   ` David du Colombier
2021-03-23 21:13     ` Kurt H Maier
2021-03-23 21:31       ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2021-03-23 22:52         ` kokamoto
2021-03-23 20:15   ` Anthony Sorace
2021-03-23 20:23     ` Anthony Sorace
2021-03-23 19:13 ` Gorka Guardiola
2021-03-23 19:17 ` Philip Silva via 9fans
2021-03-23 19:30 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-23 22:59 ` Thaddeus Woskowiak
2021-03-23 23:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2021-03-23 23:55 ` Dave MacFarlane
2021-03-24 18:07   ` Anthony Sorace
2021-03-24 20:42     ` Federico Benavento
2021-03-24 22:13       ` vic.thacker
2021-03-30 16:23         ` awkfan77 via 9fans
2021-03-30 17:47           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-03-30 19:17             ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31  8:30               ` Richard Miller
2021-03-31  9:04                 ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 10:48                   ` arnold
2021-03-31 11:08                     ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 15:33                       ` ron minnich
2021-03-31 16:17                         ` G. David Butler
2021-03-31 16:32                           ` kvik
2021-03-31 16:36                             ` Jeremy Jackins
2021-03-31 16:40                               ` Robert Sherwood
2021-03-31 17:36                               ` arnold
2021-03-31 17:44                                 ` John Floren
2021-03-31 18:19                                   ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 18:31                                   ` Richard Miller
2021-03-31 18:33                                     ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 18:41                                       ` ori
2021-03-31 18:44                                         ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 18:46                                           ` ori
2021-03-31 18:48                                           ` ori
2021-03-31 21:01                                           ` Shiro
2021-03-31 21:26                                             ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-04-02 10:07                                             ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-04-02 11:21                                               ` telephil9
2021-04-15  7:24                                                 ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-04-15 16:55                                                   ` Calvin Morrison
2021-04-15 18:43                                                     ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-04-15 18:47                                                       ` Dan Cross
2021-04-15 19:12                                                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-03-31 19:36                                       ` Richard Miller
2021-03-31 18:41                                   ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 18:16                                 ` Richard Miller
2021-03-31 18:26                                   ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 16:38                             ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 16:42                               ` Don Bailey
2021-03-31 16:27                         ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 16:42                           ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-31 16:48                             ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 17:00                               ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-31 17:02                                 ` Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans
2021-03-24  2:55 ` Kyohei Kadota
2021-03-24  3:46 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2021-03-24  6:30   ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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