From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006101249.IAA22853@cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 License From: "rob pike" Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:49:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b4cda6ba-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 One question has just struck me. Presumably version 2 by defaults remains under the license it was released with. Is it preposterous to expect the new terms to be appled retroactively to those of us who have access to it? There are a number of elements of the 1995 release that were provided only under the terms of that release. For example, the sources for the NeXTstation were made available, after much negotiation, provided that we were producing a limited number of CDs for strictly non-commercial distribution. A number of things, including the NeXTstation sources, are not available in the third release because the required permission could not be obtained to make them available under an open source license. Another example is the RNGC2000.0 database. In other words, the new license does not apply to the version 2, 1995 release of Plan 9. The open source license is not retroactive. -rob