From: dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: re: [9fans] Open but not free
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:13:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006132313.TAA24651@cse.psu.edu> (raw)
[Disclaimer: in spite of the email address, I am not a member of the
group that developed Plan 9. Any opinions expressed here are mine
alone].
[snip]
> perhaps the Plan 9
> license does not qualify as Open Source according to the Open Source
> Guidelines of the Open Source Initiative
[snip]
>
> And it is obvious that there are people in the free software
> community, like Richard Stallman, who don't like the license used by
> Bell Labs for releasing the source code.
I don't see what Richard Stallman's opinions have to do with the
OSI's definition at http://www.opensource.org/osd.html. The
latter doesn't seem too controversial; can anyone see any reason
why the Plan 9 license wouldn't satisfy their definition?
And yes, apparently they do have ``Open Source'' trademarked...
next reply other threads:[~2000-06-13 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-13 23:13 dhog [this message]
2000-06-14 0:16 ` James G. Stallings II
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-19 13:20 rob pike
[not found] <642A954DD517D411B20C00508BCF23B0012D13C3@mail.sauder.com>
2000-06-19 8:49 ` John Kodis
2000-06-19 8:49 ` John Kodis
2000-06-26 8:59 ` Christopher Browne
2000-06-29 8:28 ` Jonathan S. Shapiro
2000-06-13 22:39 kim kubik
2000-06-13 14:57 philw
2000-06-13 13:25 bwc
2000-06-13 21:15 ` Pedro de-las-Heras-Quiros
2000-06-13 21:28 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-06-13 21:39 ` Berry Kercheval
2000-06-14 8:49 ` Christopher Browne
2000-06-14 14:51 ` Greg Hudson
2000-06-14 15:54 ` Berry Kercheval
2000-06-14 8:50 ` Christopher Browne
2000-06-13 9:23 forsyth
2000-06-13 7:32 Nigel Roles
2000-06-13 8:05 ` Lucio De Re
2000-06-13 14:50 ` Douglas Fraser
2000-06-13 5:42 presotto
2000-06-13 6:07 ` Lucio De Re
2000-06-13 11:20 ` James G. Stallings II
2000-06-13 12:59 ` Bill Gunshannon
2000-06-13 13:36 ` Alexander Viro
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