Why?

[Andrew C Bulhak acb@cs.monash.edu.au]

[Curt Sampson]
> 
> In article <426c7u$m35@world.celsiustech.se>,
> Bengt Kleberg <bkl@celsiustech.SE> wrote:
> 
> >Plan9 is is a distributed OS, to be used in heterogenous hardware
> >environments. The standalone PC version is free, for the home hacker.
> >The real version is $350 and supposedly used by several people. 10
> >people makes it $35 each, 100 people makes it $3.5 each, none of which
> >is expensive.
> 
> Is the licence one gets for $350 a site licence? Does this mean I
> can have it up and running on as many machines at my corporation as I
> like, without any further fee?
> 
> [ See http://plan9.att.com/plan9/shrink.html for the actual license. It
> contains the following phrase "This SOFTWARE may be used by you or by
> an organization of which you are a member or employee solely for
> research or educational purposes." -- mod ]

How strictly is "organisation" defined? If a group of friends form an 
informal Plan 9 Hackers' Club, can they legally install Plan 9 on their
machines from the same CD provided that they don't make any commercial use
of it? Is it one of those gray areas, like copying 10-year-old Commodore
games or taping TV programs?

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