* distribution of changes
@ 1995-08-19 5:05 Dennis
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From: Dennis @ 1995-08-19 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
The question arises
Since we are bound by the licence not to distribute modified versions
of THE SOFTWARE to anyone without a licence, do we have a plan by
which we can authenticate licensees?
It would be reasonable to assume for practical purposes that anyone
who goes to the trouble of subscribing to 9fans is either a licensee or
a member of an organization that has a licensee (I'm proud that
I sneaked that clause into the shrink-wrap).
Anyone can get the entire authentic source for $350. I'm quite
certain that quoting fragments of it on a mailing list, or archiving
repaired versions of things on an FTP site, is unlikely
to be objectionable until the quantity grows
to a level at which Plan 9 can be reconstructed more cheaply
by seining out its source from the list--that is, the point at which
demonstrable harm begins to exist. If that happens, expect
mail from us asking you to stop, please; also expect mailbombs
from 9fans readers who already have the system and don't
want to find another copy in their mailboxes.
Dennis
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@ 1995-08-19 10:01 forsyth
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From: forsyth @ 1995-08-19 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>a member of an organization that has a licensee (I'm proud that
>>I sneaked that clause into the shrink-wrap).
that explains it. i thought that clause was stunning. thanks very much!
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@ 1995-08-19 20:27 Felix
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From: Felix @ 1995-08-19 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dennis Ritchie:
> It would be reasonable to assume for practical purposes that anyone
> who goes to the trouble of subscribing to 9fans is either a licensee or
> a member of an organization that has a licensee (I'm proud that
> I sneaked that clause into the shrink-wrap).
cute. but at the moment, I'm neither, and probably not going to find
a spare $350 (plus $ for a disk drive, etc.) in the immediate future.
well, can I claim that I'm a member of an organization called the USA?
but there's probably a legal definition of "organization" that
precludes this..
--
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