From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:01:38 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] licence of ditroff? Message-ID: <200502010901.j1191cDT007818@skeeve.com> > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:50:26 +0000 (UTC) > From: Thorsten Glaser > Subject: Re: [TUHS] licence of ditroff? > To: Aharon Robbins > Cc: martinwguy at yahoo.it, miros-discuss at 66h.42h.de, tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org > > Aharon Robbins dixit: > > >Instead of starting with 27 year old code, you'd be better > >off taking the troff from http://www.swtch.com/plan9port. > > Thanks, that's a nice idea, but from what I experienced, > the portability of recent AT&T/Bell/Lucent/whatever code > is worse than the bugs in old code (eg. I could not get > ksh93 to compile, something in there just dumped core; > but then that's Unix, not Plan 9). ksh93 is a different animal, from a different group, and problems there are not surprising (sadly). On the flip side, they do take bug reports seriously. > >This is a port of many Plan 9 utilities to Unix. The troff there > >(a) has an explicit license that will probably do for the BSD people > > If it's the same licence as for 8c, then no, unfortunately. I don't know. It's worth double checking the current license; it changed sometime in the past year or two. The Plan 9 troff is certainly a descendant of the ditroff you found, for whatever that's worth. Arnold