Re: [9fans] license situation and OSI

[EBo <ebo@sandien.com>]

> I just ran into a number of discussions on the Internet about the
> fight against licence proliferation and then went to OSI to see how
> things looked for Plan9.
>
> According to their documentation [1, 2], it sort of looks like this
>
> LPL superseded by LPL 1.02, which in turn is redundant with CPL and
> CPL in turn is superseded by EPL [3].
>
> Does this mean that for all intents and purposes, Plan9 can be
> considered EPL (even if licence notices say otherwise)?
>
> ...

I would definitely be easier to have them all consolidated down into a
couple, but the problem is that any developer/creator can choose the terms
under which their work is distributed and used, and some of the terms are
truly BIZARRE (see the Death and Repudiation license --
http://github.com/indeyets/syck/blob/master/COPYING -- where you have to be
running the software while you are dead. I kid you not.  I just have to
wonder about the legal loophole for zombies...).  In order to truly
consolidate these licensing you would have to get explicit acceptance of
every developer on all the other licenses, and probably have them relicense
the software.  Do you think you can get Lucent to relicense pla9 as EPL?
Is it worth everyones time to make this happen?

  EBo --