Inferno OS source code was released under open source license

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43 points·wejick··5 comments

If anyone has interest in running a 64bit version of Inferno on Mac OS (Mac OS can't run 32bit code for the last few releases), I've got a pretty rough port of it working here:

https://github.com/leimy/9ferno-leimy

It's based on the 9ferno repo hosted with the 9front project (Plan 9 fork)

http://git.9front.org/plan9front/9ferno/HEAD/info.html

I've not gotten Apple Silicon support working, but that would certainly be welcome. This is amd64 only.

(Not sure if Joe has taken my changes into his branch yet, but they might be there.)

What license? Where are the LICENSE files? I looked around a bit and hadn't found any after several minutes.

edit: MIT, I think. I'm not used to bitbucket and was browsing the files, but it was more easily found via commits.

https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/commits/6cde411a...

I also am used to LICENSE or COPYING, but I think they're calling the files NOTICE.

>The bulk of the tree is covered by the permissive MIT licence reproduced below. Individual components might have their own NOTICE and LICENCE files

Nice, this is actual end of the line for Plan 9 ideas, and should be worthy of being worhshiped the same way.

I remember somebody tried to port Inferno to Raspberry Pi, but I only had success running Plan 9 on it.

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