From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:24:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000906213447.6AEAE199E2@mail> (raw)
> The grant back clause in the Plan 9 Open Source licence 4.0 does not
> relate to your applications. It is designed, on my reading, to
> give rights to Lucent (Original Contributor) and other Contributors
> (the rest of us) to get access to modifications made on the original source.
That is indeed the intent.
> On my reading, neither Lucent nor anyone else has any lien over an
> application that you develop under Plan 9.
True again. I'm hoping to spring clearer wording from the lawyers;
this clause has caused much misunderstanding.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2000-09-06 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-06 13:24 rob pike [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-09-06 13:24 forsyth
2000-09-06 22:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:09 bwc
2000-09-05 13:29 [9fans] " Leo Caves
2000-09-05 14:27 ` [9fans] " Conway Yee
2000-09-05 16:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-06 8:45 ` George Michaelson
2000-09-06 13:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 19:45 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 8:45 ` Christopher Browne
2000-09-06 10:35 ` Michael Jeffrey.
2000-09-06 13:43 ` Boyd Roberts
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