From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tg@66h.42h.de (Thorsten Glaser) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:50:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [TUHS] licence of ditroff? In-Reply-To: <200501310939.j0V9dbJF027523@skeeve.com> References: <200501310939.j0V9dbJF027523@skeeve.com> Message-ID: 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). >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. >(b) already knows how to produce PostScript That's a must for replacing the current oldroff (nroff). >(c) can handle UTF-8 and 16-bit Unicode That's pretty neat ;) bye, //mirabile