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

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

2012-07-25 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Andy Elvey andy.el...@paradise.net.nzwrote: 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

[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 hiro
nobody here's a lawyer.

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

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
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. My advice as your lawyer [in comedy] would be to go nuts and do whatever you want. The

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

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
(no license required to see that!) there is, however, a copyright link at the bottom of each man page. as your lawyer [in comedy] i advise you to click it.

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.

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

2012-07-24 Thread erik quanstrom
In looking at Tim Newsham's P9.py, he has a comment in the code - 9P protocol implementation as documented in plan9 intro(5) and fcall.h. ( I would likely be even more cautious and avoid looking at any header files if possible. ) Thanks again, Andrey - you've been very helpful! section 5

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

2012-07-24 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Andy Elvey andy.el...@paradise.net.nz wrote: 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)

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

2012-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
Btw - I clicked on the copyright link at the bottom, but the link is dead - nothing but a 404 page error. that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system for a long time. from my (admittedly little) experience with 9p implementations, the ones done outside of plan9 code

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

2012-07-24 Thread erik quanstrom
that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system for a long time. h. don't tell my employer. - erik

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

2012-07-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
For a dead OS, Plan 9 sure gets around ;) Plan 9, a nurse-log of modern computing. -Skip On Jul 24, 2012, at 9:10 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system for a long time. h. don't tell my employer. - erik

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

2012-07-24 Thread Jens Staal
2012/7/25 Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com: For a dead OS, Plan 9 sure gets around ;) Plan 9, a nurse-log of modern computing. -Skip On Jul 24, 2012, at 9:10 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: that's the joke :) plan9 has been considered a dead operating system