From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:37:36 +0000
From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] inferno licence terms
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This is exciting! We have both Plan 9 and Inferno coming out to play.

>From: Charles Forsyth

Given the only difference I see between a Personal License and a Corporate
(Enterprise?) License is the number of individuals it covers, I will ask my
questions from the point of view of the Licensed Entity.

Is the License Fee one-time or recurring?

>* You can distribute without fee [ie, no run-time royalty to us] binary copies
>of Inferno or binary copies of amended versions of Inferno

Does the Licensed Entity have to pay a royalty to anybody? (You only
excluded Vita Nuova.) If so, does it make any difference if the device
the binary runs on is a toaster or a Cray?

Does an entity that receives a copy of binaries from a Licensed Entity
have commercial use rights?

Does the Licensed Entity have to report to Vita Nuova any of these
distributions?

What is the mechinism for support for the Licensed Entity?

What is the mechinism for support for the entity that receives a
binary only distribution from a Licensed Entity? What if the
Licensed Entity made changes that were not sent back to Vita Nuova?

>* You can distribute without fee [ie, nothing payable to us] Inferno source code to
>other Inferno subscribers

In other words, this is not an Open Source arrangement.


This is great news!

David Butler
gdb@dbSystems.com