From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200306171754.h5HHsaZR028481@xerxes.courtesan.com> To: 9fans@collyer.net Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Usenix BOF, 12 June 2003 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:54:35 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc67343c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > The licence has been changed and I don't really understand the > implications, except that the Open Source Institute blessed the > penultimate version and declared it officially ``open source''. See > plan9.bell-labs.com/hidden/nntemplate.html. It might be worth > pointing the OpenBSD folks at this licence if they are serious about > using the Plan 9 C compilers. Unfortunately, OpenBSD can't really use the compiler unless it has a license similar to that used by MIT, UC Berkeley, or the ISC. Our goals are quite different from the OSI; we favor licenses that are both clear and concise (the text of our preferred license is just 10 lines on an 80-column terminal) and, most importantly, that don't require a lawyer to interpret. Anything that creates a tortious liability for us is simply not acceptable as we have no financial means of defending ourselves. As it stands, the new Lucent license is not something we can use. This is unfortunate as continued development and expansion of the plan9 toolchain is in the best interests of both the plan9 community and the open source community at large. It would mean development of additional CPU targets that could be used to bootstrap ports of plan9 to currently unsupported platforms. - todd