The issue is ownership and grants. Not the code the foundation now owns and grants with a MIT license. It’s all the code that everyone is using. See the following email thread:
https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T755e5f03f61e4ad9-M2a5721b473ddb74b3c3d9503/9fans-is-the-vanilla-plan-9-still-alive David Sent from my phone. Please excuse misspellings and terseness. > On Mar 31, 2021, at 10:34 AM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The LPL is dead. It died when all the Plan 9 IP was transferred to the > foundation. > > Nokia is out of the picture. > > So let's realign this discussion a bit. The Plan 9 source formerly > owned by Nokia is owned by the foundation. That source is released > under the MIT license. > > As for the inclusion of source not owned by the foundation, if that > source has a license (e.g. MIT) which allows other projects, including > the foundation's Plan 9 project, to include it in a distribution or > repo, then that is ok. As per common practice, and up to the > discretion of the author, the files typically include a license header > and copyright notice. > > I'm not understanding the issue here. This is all pretty settled > stuff: source code under one copyright and an MIT license which > includes other source code covered by a different copyright and an MIT > license. > > ron > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:10 AM Anonymous AWK fan via 9fans > <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: >>>> As I interpret it, we'd need Nokia to re-release Plan 9 under a Lucent >>>> Public License version 1.03 which would be the MIT license for >>>> contributions to be relicensed (if I'm interpreting it correctly the >>>> GPL release of Plan 9 couldn't apply to contributions either.) >>> >>> I Am Not A Lawyer, and I don't doubt that the P9 foundation can >>> get good lawyers. But, once _ownership_ of the copyright was transferred >>> to the P9F, they can do what they want with it, including publishing >>> under the MIT license. There should not be a need to involve Nokia >>> any further. >> >> The problem is Nokia doesn't own the contributions, so they can't transfer >> them to the P9F, but the LPL says they have the right to update the LPL, >> or was this right transferred to the P9F too? ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M0f3826dfa45e7e339e199fd1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
