From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b90404e71c953be5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-17 09:52:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E9ED825.5040107@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Q re Plan 9 (Was Experiences with GPS-IDE) References: <3E9AA2C7.2BF8389B@konad.de> <3E9C3236.1080902@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:36:53 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1050597413 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:36:53 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:36:53 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36240 Date: 2003-04-17T12:36:53-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > : Have they changed the licensing of Plan 9 yet? The very last > : that I read (quite some time ago), they could revoke your right > : to use the O/S at any time (whether or not it was for personal > : use). This was an unacceptable condition for me, if I am > : to invest any time or effort for that platform. > > I don't see this, but INAL. > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html > is fairly short, talks about binary/source distributions, > and has a GPL exhibit (for ghostscript fonts). > You are asked to make your modifications available, and > they may revoke your right to use the _Plan_9_Trademark_ iff > the quality of your stuff is below Lucent's standards. > > -- Georg Thanks for the link. I'll take another look at it then, on some rainy day ;-) It seems to appear revised. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg