From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] license situation and OSI
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 07:57:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikQRDM7ZpjFvgI7fDTKqTO88BByEF05qnCsKjnU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ae079e8c3fd3f1bb06812607300224d@terzarima.net>
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>>You don't get to change the license
>
> ``3. REQUIREMENTS
> A. Distributor may choose to distribute the Program in any form under
> this Agreement or under its own license agreement, provided that:
> ...
> c. if distributed under Distributor's own license agreement, such
> license agreement:
> ... [conditions placed on an alternative licence, including spelling out the differences]
> ''
I've always thought this was an entertaining perspective on licensing.
Really there are just two kinds of licenses: ones that allow
relicensing and ones that don't. Kinda puts MS and EFF in the same
camp.
-Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 8:37 staalmannen
2010-05-26 9:55 ` EBo
2010-05-26 12:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-05-26 12:42 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-05-26 15:57 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2010-05-26 17:24 ` Nick LaForge
2010-05-26 19:57 ` Jack Johnson
2010-05-26 20:08 ` Corey
2010-05-26 20:28 ` Jack Johnson
2010-05-26 20:42 ` Corey
2010-05-27 3:10 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-05-26 18:50 ` Russ Cox
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