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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Aug 20 license modification
Date: Sun,  8 Sep 2002 11:48:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21e4e1fad7ce366e0327b91e6c30c896@centurytel.net> (raw)

My biggest problem is that, for a change as critical as this, it was
done in a rather stealthy way.  When you do the fresh download you
have to read and agree to the license.  I don't know of any such setup
with replica/pull.

How many more changes like this are expected?

>> Presumably the sources prior to August 20 can still be redistributed
>> under the older license.  So perhaps the Plan 9 community needs to
>> set up a repository independent of Lucent, and go forward from there,
>> accepting no further changes developed by Lucent?
>
> Hangar 18 is already there...when we set ourselves up in 2000 this was
> one of the issues that was driving the group, the believe that Lucent
> would -not- be a good 'parent'.
>
> http://open-forge.org



             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-08 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-08 15:48 Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-09  2:06 okamoto
2002-09-08 16:03 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-09-09  0:05 ` Jack Johnson
2002-09-07 19:42 Micah Stetson
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

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