Re: Plan 9 license

2000-08-20 Thread John Cowan
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kenneth Stephen wrote: Has this list already discussed the Plan 9 license ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html )? If so, could someone tell me whether it is considered open-sources or point me to the relevent messages in the archives (is there an

RMS on OpenMotif

2000-08-20 Thread John Cowan
I believe there is no reasonable dispute that OpenMotif, a licensed version of Motif for use with open-source systems, is not itself open source: it clearly steps on criteria 1, 8, and 9 of the OSD, as the Open Group themselves concede. RMS believes it is not free software, either, and I think

Re: Plan 9 license

2000-08-20 Thread David Johnson
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kenneth Stephen wrote: Has this list already discussed the Plan 9 license ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html )? If so, could someone tell me whether it is considered open-sources or point me to the

Re: Plan 9 license

2000-08-20 Thread David Johnson
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kenneth Stephen wrote: Has this list already discussed the Plan 9 license ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html )? If so, could someone tell me whether it is considered open-sources or point me to the relevent messages in the archives (is there an web

RE: Plan 9 license

2000-08-20 Thread SamBC
-Original Message- From: pgmr [mailto:pgmr]On Behalf Of Kenneth Stephen Has this list already discussed the Plan 9 license ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html )? If so, could someone tell me whether it is considered open-sources or point me to the relevent

Re: RMS on OpenMotif

2000-08-20 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote: RMS writes (copied here under a claim of fair use): Here are some of the problems of the Motif license: It claims that you accept the license merely by "using" Motif. Only a shrink-wrap license or something similar can do that, and

Archive back online

2000-08-20 Thread Russell Nelson
David Johnson writes: There is an archive at "http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/3 ". After a quick check, it is still there, but is a month behind. Sorry about that, I had an incorrect pathname. Mail was being archived, but not made available via the web interface. -- -russ nelson