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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




             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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