Why Plan-9 licensing?
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Oct 22 00:20:34 PDT 2001
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Nutshell argument: license interactions are factorial.
How so? Proof?
> Interaction complexity reduces overall value of a codebase, and tends to
> marginalize minority licenses.
Interaction for who, the author or the user? All license start out in the
minority. It's a competition in a way. I've also got some question about
exactly which of the Plan 9 licenses the reviews were for. There have been
several over the last couple of years. As objections have been raised
they've been addressed. I'll send a URL along to the list...
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