From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:17:41 -0400 From: Andrew C Bulhak acb@cs.monash.edu.au Subject: Why? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1f7b2d44-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950903181741.2VdIuw5ODMWbHTjkm8eexE5TEryLwg4pWxlFWz2Nv5k@z> [Curt Sampson] > > In article <426c7u$m35@world.celsiustech.se>, > Bengt Kleberg 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? -- /d/def/s/scale/u/dup/f/forall{load def}{loop}stopped pop/r{u 1 lt{-1 0 moveto 1 1 lineto stroke}{[[(ha_a0\211)(db\\h\(~)(eVhdOj)(jd_dbd)(dh\\bT\200)(f_ab^\211) (c]ffe\201)(`@h`x\200)(cZhd#h)(hb^d0v)(`Lh`8t)(eVhd\223~)(gj^a\230j)(h_ab\210a) (gd^c\211\205)]{[exch{96 sub}f]}f]{gsave 1 64 div u s concat u 1 sub r grestore }f}ifelse pop}d 240 u s 1.25 1 translate 4 r showpage% - acb@cs.monash.edu.au -