Plan 9 license

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, David Johnson wrote:
> Oh, he's corrected me before, yet I persist in this heresy :-) The way
> I look at it, both the OSI and the FSF are trying to place a definition
> on the same concept. RMS' problems with "Open Source" have nothing to
> do with the OSD allowing to much or too little in the definitions.
> Other than a mention of the APSL, the only distinctions he makes in
> "Why Free Software is better than Open Source" are in the names
> and the perceived ethics. He says nothing about differences in
> definitions.

It seems pretty clear to me; Stallman's concepts of free includes the
requirement that protections for the longevity of that freedom are
mandatory, whereas Open Source more simply requires the right to fork (and
other various details that ease widespread distribution).  

	Brian