Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

["ibrahim via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net>]

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> You have apparently not read our licensing document at
> /lib/legal/NOTICE, which explicitly names the terms of the original Plan
> 9 code, and assigns the MIT license only to changes produced by 9front.
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> As the labs-provided code has been made available under different
> licenses, we have updated this to reflect the changes, from Lucent
> Public License, through the GPL relicense, and then the MIT license.
> At all times we've complied with the distribution requirements of all
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> These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

You really should read the GPL. Your changes were included with GPL'ed code even in the same file and not distributed as independent patches so the modified work as a whole got infected by the GPL license.

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