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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: FreeBSD port of plan9port
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0512301339v461af5fen4857c6148b423c9f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EsRkt-0000iF-W6@quenix1.dyndns.org>

> When i read the LICENSE for the first time, i understood that a FreeBSD
> package couldn't not be redistributed because of the license in
> fonts/lucida.
>
> "No right is granted to create derivative works of or
>    to redistribute (other than with the Plan 9 Operating System)"
>
> Plan9port is not an operating system itself, then it couldn't be
> redistributed as a FreeBSD package. This is how i understood this line.

I would argue that distribution of the fonts with plan9port
counts as being with the Plan 9 Operating System, since
that's what plan9port is, just a port of the Plan 9 Operating System
software to Unix systems.

If you pulled the fonts out and distributed them with some
other piece of software, that wouldn't be allowed.  But I think
distribution with plan9port is fine.

Russ


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-30  7:00 Serge Gagnon
2005-12-30  9:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-12-30 15:53 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-30 21:25   ` Serge Gagnon
2005-12-30 21:39     ` Russ Cox [this message]

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