Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released

Nokia Bell Labs announced today that the copyright to the Plan 9 operating system software has been transferred to the Plan 9 Foundation for all future development of this novel distributed operating system that originated in the 80's...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Plan-9-2021

[c117152]

Anything keeping the 9front guys from contributing back their work?

p.s. also saw a few GUI suggestions on the GSOC list... Might want to hold off on that until golang 1.18 is out and people start working on a gui toolkit.

p.p.s. 9front license was rebased mit: http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/rev/87d8e72ffb5c

[skeevy420]

"ho knows, perhaps Plan 9 will become a part of the emerging distributed cloud infrastructure that will underpin the coming industrial revolution?

I think that should be "Who"

And now it is simply left for me to smash the metaphorical magnum of champagne as Plan 9 sets sail on the next leg of her journey, to parts unknown."

Or maybe Plan 9 is a siren.

[tildearrow]

I think that should be "Who"



Or maybe Plan 9 is a siren.

Can I report a typo?

[ElectricPrism]

If other old projects could "take the pledge" sharing code to be released under a public license say 15-20 years -- that'd be awesome.

This is good news but I can't imagine how it fits into the current technosphere in a useful way.

[jacob]

If other old projects could "take the pledge" sharing code to be released under a public license say 15-20 years -- that'd be awesome.

This is good news but I can't imagine how it fits into the current technosphere in a useful way.

It doesn't. Like Multics and GWBasic it has historical value and it's good to preserve it as such, but it doesn't have any actual use.

[cl333r]

Or maybe Plan 9 is a siren.

Plan 9 was a teamwork between American and German developers, the Americans asked:
- Do we have a plan?
- Nein
- Ok, Plan 9, what is it?
- ...

[ermo]

Plan 9 was a teamwork between American and German developers, the Americans asked:
- Do we have a plan?
- Nein
- Ok, Plan 9, what is it?
- ...

That was so terrible it's hard NOT to love it! xD

[kingu]

I have taken a direct hit.

[skeevy420]

Can I report a typo?

Not when we're talking about hos.