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From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs re-release
Date: Thu,  5 Dec 2002 16:41:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212051640440.3498-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a14ec16a3ebdb281b1be00cd64209941@plan9.bell-labs.com>


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> > It strikes me as being very close, at least in intent, to the BSD
> > licence.  I concur with those who believe that having as few
> > variations as possible from a small set of fundamental "Open Source"
> > licences is good for the community in general and bad for lawyers,
> > so in my opinion this particular licence should explicitly model
> > itself on the BSD one.
>
> The point of this was NOT to reopen haggling over licensing.
> Bell Labs has been using that boilerplate since before the term
> "open source" existed.  It's not like the wording was written from
> scratch yesterday.
>
> Please please PLEASE don't continue this thread.  We'll all just
> have filled mailboxes and nothing useful to show for it.

That's funny since you're the one who opened with a jab...


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-05 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-05 15:53 Russ Cox
2002-12-05 22:41 ` Jim Choate [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-07  0:29 Geoff Collyer
2002-12-06 16:59 Sam
2002-12-05 16:06 ozan s. yigit
2002-12-05 16:03 ozan s. yigit
2002-12-05 15:32 Russ Cox
2002-12-05 15:44 ` Lucio De Re
2002-12-05 23:19 ` Ronald G. Minnich

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