Re: [9fans] ddc

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> > very list. I'm worried about R4 because that license looks like it may
> > prevent a core code split so we won't be able to use any of it, too bad.
>
> given that the license has gotten less restrictive since r3,
> you should feel free to go off and do your code split using r4.
> we did r4 with the same license we were using for r3
> at the time.

It isn't the wording per se, but the rather weird way it morphed a short
while ago. Demonstrates it's unstable and there is some sort of internal
conflict in Lucent. Given their financial situation it would not surprise
me if the lawyers decided it wouldn't be a nifty way to raise some going
out of business capital. Such a situation could create a very serious
situation for any user groups or indy developers who happen to jump on the
Plan 9 bandwagon.

I'm going to cover all my bases for the time being by trying to keep both
versions alive. As much of a pain that will be ;)


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