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Subject: Re: [9fans] Aug 20 license modification
From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Sun,  8 Sep 2002 11:48:15 -0400
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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