From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:08:12 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: the licence
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>>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.