From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 21:01:34 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC 2013] Implement plan9 commands in Go, Goblin Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f66fd70-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2013/5/1 andrey mirtchovski : > my apologies for the tasteless comment, but IMHO making goblin GPL'ed > will cause uriel to be spinning at a higher rate than desired. Agree. But I think he means GPL compatible, not GPL. Goblin is MIT-licensed. Also I think there are valid points in ensuring that goblin actually preserves Plan 9 behavior. It is not clear that this is the case right now. I don't agree that all of these commands can be implemented over GSoC by a single student. awk and troff are not small tasks, for instance. --dho