From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:34:06 +0200
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Dan Cross:

> Otherwise, what's your point by sending this garbage to 9fans?  If
> you've got a problem with Bell Labs, take it up with them.  Don't spam
> the rest of us with your misunderstandings of the community's goals.

The whole point of the mail is:

(1) It would be very nice to have the plan9 toolchain replace gcc
    in the Unix world.

(2) Step (1) will probably only happen if the License is much
    more liberal than the gcc license, e.g. an ISC or BSD style license.

Nobody is forcing you to do (2), especially if you don't care about (1).

So (1) might not be the "community"'s goal, but could do a favour to
rest of the world outside of the "community".