[9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention)

["Michael Jeffrey." <michael@vitanuova.com>]

Conway Yee <yee@bronze.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

>Third, as it stands, Plan 9's license is hardly appropriate to those
>who would run it for serious applications.  Who wants to take the risk
>of having ATT own your application?

The grant back clause in the Plan 9 Open Source licence 4.0 does not
relate to your applications.  It is designed, on my reading, to
give rights to Lucent (Original Contributor) and other Contributors
(the rest of us) to get access to modifications made on the original source.
On my reading, neither Lucent nor anyone else has any lien over an
application that you develop under Plan 9.