Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 Oct 2002 22:17:11 -0400 | Subject | Re: an open letter to Geor | From | "Rick A. Hohensee" <> |
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A snippet of the Plan 9 license....
2.0 GRANT OF RIGHTS 2.1 Subject to the terms of this Agreement and to third party intellectual property claims, Lucent grants to Licensee, a royalty-free, nonexclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, execute, display, perform, distribute and sublicense, the Original Software (with or without Modifications) in Source Code form and/or Object Code form for commercial and/or non-commercial purposes. This grant includes a nonexclusive and non-transferable license under any patents which Lucent has a right to license and which, but for this license, are unavoidably and necessarily infringed by the execution of the inherent functionality
The Plan 9 License was modified to resemble the GPL around Jan 2000 or so, as was Kermit. I posted to linux-kernel on the matter at the time. These two events changed the open source landscape substantially.
Rick Hohensee
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