Re: [9fans] Aug 20 license modification

[Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Micah Stetson wrote:

> 	No right is granted to use, reproduce, modify, execute,
> 	display, perform, distribute or sublicense the Original
> 	Software or any modules or portions thereof as a part
> 	of, or in conjunction with, any other operating system
> 	or application.

This looks disturbingly like the next step in the continuous attempts by
Lucent to kill Plan 9 any way they can :-(

You know, as hard as we are working here at LANL to get this stuff
noticed, I sometimes feel Lucent is working just as hard to make it
impossible for DOE or other parts of the USG to ever use it. This is very
discouraging.

I've talked this system up at various "high level" (i.e.  non-technical)
DOE-sponsored meetings.  We're actually at the point where the name "Plan
9" appears on OTHER people's slides about "possible future OS directions
for DOE". But the earlier license was enough of a problem, and this new
clause might be enough to take Plan 9 off the table. Blast.

Bell Labs guys, is there any hope of fixing this? Or are we screwed?

ron