Re: [9front] Fwd: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On April 9, 2021 9:10:52 PM EDT, Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
>I really don't get what this is all about when the license:
>   https://opensource.org/licenses/LPL-1.02
>clearly states:
>
>"a. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Contributor hereby grants
>Recipient a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to
>reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform,
>distribute and sublicense the Contribution of such Contributor, if any, and
>such derivative works, in source code and object code form."
>
>Therefore, anyone who has contributed has explicitly granted the
>sublicensing right.
>
>Thanks,
>Roman.
>
>
>On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 2:08 AM <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>>
>> the following have been added:
>>
>> 9atom
>> clive
>> inferno-1.0e
>> inferno-1.1e
>> inferno-3e
>> plan_9_1st_ed
>> plan_9_3rd_ed
>>
>> thanks, everyone.
>>
>> sl
>

evidently I mistakenly responded to the wrong list/thread. this was intended to be a reply to a request on the cat-v mailing list to add recently unencumbered man pages to man.cat-v.org.

early editions of plan 9 had not been previously released under the lpl (much less the current mit license).

anyway, you're welcome.

sl