From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: the licence
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:08:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19960223000812.15WI6jbfqBgYtp_nGYukypT6rxnOp90qQqLcXb4LJbk@z> (raw)
>>Hmm. These wouldn't be the same lawyers who drew up the Plan 9
>>licensing agreement, would they? From my reading of the licensing
>>agreement, if my cat has kittens in the same room as my Plan 9
>>workstation the kittens belong to AT&T. =;-)
i was surprised by this comment, although i've heard it before.
i suspect it is fast becoming a popular misconception.
the Plan 9 licence certainly isn't a free for all,
but seems to me to be a reasonable attempt at protecting each party's interests in
an agreeable, equitable, and even generous manner.
frankly, compared to the FSF offering, i'm willing to pay for Plan 9
and even give up kittens, if i owned them, so as not to have to invoke one of
those wretched `configure' scripts ever again.
next reply other threads:[~1996-02-23 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-02-23 0:08 forsyth [this message]
1996-02-23 1:20 Paul
1996-02-23 2:31 Luther
1996-02-23 4:18 Greg
1996-02-23 4:45 Luther
1996-02-23 8:17 Nigel
1996-02-23 8:25 forsyth
1996-02-23 8:41 forsyth
1996-02-23 9:06 forsyth
1996-02-23 14:00 Boyd
1996-02-23 14:05 Boyd
1996-02-23 15:28 Arnold
1996-02-23 17:06 pete.fenelon
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