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Plan 9 Is Now Available Under The GNU GPLv2
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Originally posted by c117152 View PostSo? As long as it's well written, working and won't get you sued, why should you care if the LPL version doesn't come with the driver bundled? It's still the Lab's version you're contributing to so it's not like you're forking it or anything...
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostWell, such changes would not be upstreamable. So you would have to fork it to contribute such code.
Hasn't occurred to me this is a one-time deal.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostWhat for? Is there any specific code in Plan 9 that could be both useful in Linux, and practical to port across? I'm thinking probably not... any desirable features could have been (and perhaps were) copied in Linux years ago if anyone wanted them, and I can't imagine the code is all that useful... anything valuable would need a lot of rewriting to port it to Linux kernel APIs and subsystems...
Plan 9 does have an extremely robust implementation of TCP/IP including IPV6.
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Originally posted by JX8p View PostA new OS project has emerged called Akaros, which is under the GPLv2. The Plan 9 Lucent Public License is GPL-incompatible, so this dual-licensing allows Plan9 code to be incorporated into Akaros.
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