Re: [9fans] Uriel

2012-10-15 Thread Andy Elvey
On 15/10/12 22:04, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 10/15/2012 01:13 AM, Julius Schmidt wrote: I am very sorry to inform you that uriel has passed away recently. He will be missed. It is great loss for all us, indeed. I was very shocked and saddened to see this. - Andy

[9fans] The cons file and consolefs

2012-08-24 Thread Andy Elvey
Hi all - I've just been looking at the docs for cons and consolefs. I am just **blown away** by how cleanly and elegantly keyboard input is handled in Plan 9! There seems to be *none* of the - um - less than optimal, to put it mildly - approach of Linux, with its termios and friends. There

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or public domain?

2012-07-25 Thread Andy Elvey
On 25/07/12 16:06, John Floren wrote: (snip) Just write the code, nobody cares. The manual pages define an interface, and you're going to implement it. The manual pages are copyrighted, sure, because they're written works and are automatically protected by copyright. Besides the recent Google

[9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or public domain?

2012-07-24 Thread Andy Elvey
Hi everyone - I'm a first-timer here - I'm thinking of doing a public domain implementation (in C) of 9P. I've seen the large listing (on the cat-v site) of existing 9P implementations which are under various licenses, and so in thinking about where those people obtained the required

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or public domain?

2012-07-24 Thread Andy Elvey
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.