Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: an open letter to Geor | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:51:28 +0100 (BST) |
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> A snippet of the Plan 9 license....
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That is, indeed, a quote from the current Plan 9 license.
You cut the paragraph a bit short though, and missed off the part that Richard Stallman argues excludes selling it for a profit, see:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html
infact, he makes a lot of valid comments on the current Plan 9 license, and concludes that it is not free software.
Whether you agree with Richard Stallman's definitions of free software and open source, is irrellevant. I certainly am _not_ saying that I do. The issues he raises, though, demonstrate that there are big differences between the Plan 9 license and the GPL and BSD licenses.
Don't get me wrong, I like Plan 9, but you are spreading mis-information, by continuing to imply that it is free in the same way as Linux is free.
You can find the _whole_ Plan 9 license here:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
> 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.
I don't argue that. Plan 9 is open source software. What I am saying is that the license differs from the GPL and BSD licenses in a number of ways. Comparing it to Linux, BSD, Atheos, OpenVMS, etc, etc, is comparing Apples to Oranges.
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