Thank you, I kind of got the idea that Plan 9 is an informal hobby/ research platform, and that the community contributes where they can, unless its something serious like a new release (probably not up to everybody).
> Who handles legal issues? The answer's probably "nobody". Or > everyone handles their own. That's not an entirely good thing, but > it's certainly worked reasonably so far. The Software Freedom Law Center (S.F.L.C.) is a good resource for this. Indeed it is worthwhile for a project to maintain things like trademarks (such as Glenda) from stammers attempting to take or abuse the idea. Red-Hat actively maintains its trademark, but has the money to do so (apparently its costly). Indeed complying with the licence is better result and can be achieved by a phone call or email as the violators do so because they don't understand free and open source software licencing in the first place. The main idea with having a legal officer I guess is to protect intellectual property. If a big corporation like Microsoft takes a certain idea and tries to step around the licencing agreement in place - they should be accountable!
