1 Feb
2005
1 Feb
'05
9:01 a.m.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:50:26 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg(a)66h.42h.de>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] licence of ditroff?
To: Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com>
Cc: martinwguy(a)yahoo.it, miros-discuss(a)66h.42h.de, tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Aharon Robbins dixit:
ksh93 is a different animal, from a different group, and problems
there are not surprising (sadly).
On the flip side, they do take bug reports seriously.
Instead of starting with 27 year old code,
you'd be better
off taking the troff from http://www.swtch.com/plan9port.
Thanks, that's a nice idea, but from what I experienced,
the portability of recent AT&T/Bell/Lucent/whatever code
is worse than the bugs in old code (eg. I could not get
ksh93 to compile, something in there just dumped core;
but then that's Unix, not Plan 9). This is a port
of many Plan 9 utilities to Unix. The troff there
(a) has an explicit license that will probably do for the BSD people
If it's the same licence as for 8c, then no, unfortunately.