jehanne/LICENSE.md
Giacomo Tesio c7d0f621c9 Clarify Forsyth's and 9front's copyrights
I'm very grateful to Charles Forsyth for creating most of Jehanne's kernel
and to 9front's guys for all the code and ideas they freely share.

Here I make their copyrights explicit as they had been erroneusly omitted
or messed up before. Sorry.
2018-01-05 02:30:45 +01:00

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## License ##
Jehanne inherits a lot of code from [Plan9][Plan9] through its [UC Berkeley release][brho],
[Plan9-9k][plan9-9k], [9front][9front] and [Harvey][harvey].
The initial [Plan 9][brho] code has been received, modified and
is redistributed according to the GNU General Public License, Version 2
as explained in /doc/licence/LICENSE.Plan9.txt.
The kernel is a direct fork of Charles Forsyth's [Plan9-9k][plan9-9k],
according to /doc/license/NOTICE.Plan9-9k.txt. Original kernel code is
released as GNU General Public License, Version 2.
New tools and improvements ported from 9front are subject to the MIT
license as explained in /doc/licence/9front-mit.txt.
New libraries and programs that use Plan9 libraries as system libraries
can be subject to different licenses, as documented in the respective
sources.
## New System Libraries ##
Some new libraries designed for use within Jehanne are released under
GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3.
They can be linked as "System Libraries" for use within Jehanne.
## Additional Licenses ##
Jehanne contains a number of third-party packages under various licenses.
They are retrieved from their respective sources - licenses
for these packages are not included here, but should be available
from the respective directories in /sys/src, /pkgs or /hacking.
[Plan9]: https://9p.io/plan9/index.html
[brho]: https://github.com/brho/plan9
[harvey]: http://harvey-os.org "Harvey OS"
[9front]: http://9front.org/ "THE PLAN FELL OFF"
[plan9-9k]: https://bitbucket.org/forsyth/plan9-9k "Experimental 64-bit Plan 9 kernel"