From: Andy Elvey <andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or "public domain"?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:31:34 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500F6896.4010605@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK4xykV2ffY94S=QYtj94e+_HTBSHO5OvSFJrGtTgCiPShko6g@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
Interesting. It's good to find out a bit of the history behind 9p.
>
> My advice as your lawyer [in comedy] would be to go nuts and do
> whatever you want. The documentation[1] is a good place to start if
> you don't want to look at any source (no license required to see
> that!), and if you want to cover all corner cases, a running Plan 9
> kernel is a good client/server to test against.
>
> ----
> 1: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html
Thanks for that! I'll check that page out too.
Btw - I clicked on the "copyright" link at the bottom, but the link is
dead - nothing but a 404 page error.
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 <fcall.h>."
( I would likely be even more cautious and avoid looking at any header
files if possible. )
Thanks again, Andrey - you've been very helpful!
- Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-25 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-25 0:24 Andy Elvey
2012-07-25 2:18 ` hiro
2012-07-25 2:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-07-25 2:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-07-25 3:31 ` Andy Elvey [this message]
2012-07-25 3:58 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-25 4:06 ` John Floren
2012-07-25 6:01 ` Andy Elvey
2012-07-25 14:14 ` David Leimbach
2012-07-25 4:08 ` andrey mirtchovski
[not found] ` <CAK4xykXO3AGWN_=LjeCOdNXsP1pq-6iy+M6Srm6ch4BrAz01sA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-07-25 4:10 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-25 4:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-07-25 5:09 ` Jens Staal
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