Re: Plan 9 license

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Johnson wrote: The questioner was asking whether it was Open Source. It is not yet "official" Open Source, but it seems to follow the letter of the OSD even if it strays from the general spirit several times. I'm not certain I agree with that, myself. Its

Re: RMS on OpenMotif

2000-08-21 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote: Ironically, that restriction excludes nearly all the commercial GNU/Linux distributions. They typically include some non-free software--an unfortunate policy--and hardly any of them fits the criterion specified in the Motif

Re: RMS on OpenMotif

2000-08-21 Thread Richard Stallman
Ironically, that restriction excludes nearly all the commercial GNU/Linux distributions. They typically include some non-free software--an unfortunate policy--and hardly any of them fits the criterion specified in the Motif license. The OpenMotif

Re: RMS on OpenMotif

2000-08-21 Thread David Johnson
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, you wrote: For terms not defined in the license (such as "operating system"), it would be easy for whoever brought the lawsuit to argue that using the term according to precedent -- i.e., as in the Microsoft vs. US case, which would be everything on the CD from the