From: Micah Stetson <micah@cnm-vra.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Aug 20 license modification
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:42:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020907124249.B18375@cnm-vra.com> (raw)
I hate to raise the spectre of license wars again, but I really
must ask about this.
I just updated my desktop machine from sources and noticed that
the LICENSE file was changed. Diffing against the version on
an ISO image I had lying around, I noticed something very
disturbing:
No right is granted to use, reproduce, modify, execute,
display, perform, distribute or sublicense the Original
Software or any modules or portions thereof as a part
of, or in conjunction with, any other operating system
or application.
Doesn't this disallow the incorporation of any Plan 9 code into
any other program/system? Wouldn't this prevent things like the
port of factotum to unix (with integration into the system) that
has been talked about on 9fans this last week?
Also I noticed a lot of phrases like this:
as [part of] an operating system substantially similar to
functioning Plan 9 software
in the places talking about allowed modification and
redistribution. Looks like this bars any major changes to the
system.
So if the first clause above disallows reuse of the code in other
products and the other phrase I quoted disallows major changes to
the system. Does this mean that all we are allowed to do is fix
bugs and add minor features? Must all major innovation come from
the Labs? I don't for an instant imagine that anything of the
sort is the intent of those who work on Plan 9 within Lucent, but
what are we who are outside to do?
Also, the last line of the license file says still says that it's
version 1.1 of the license modified on 09/20/00. This cant' be
right as the line is identical on the version I have without the
above changes.
Hoping I'm reading it all wrong,
Micah
next reply other threads:[~2002-09-07 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-07 19:42 Micah Stetson [this message]
2002-09-07 20:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-08 5:27 ` Mike Haertel
2002-09-08 15:44 ` Jim Choate
2002-09-08 16:10 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-09 1:38 ` Eric Dorman
2002-09-08 15:48 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-09-08 16:03 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-09-09 0:05 ` Jack Johnson
2002-09-09 2:06 okamoto
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