RMS on Plan 9 license, with my comments

[John Cowan]

SamBC wrote:

> Sounds like it prohibts nothing, just demands that modifications be
> submitted to the originator, as in many current licenses.

Which is the notional equivalent of demanding that the marginal notes you
make in a book you own constitute a modified work, and that you must send
a Xerox of the modified book to the author (or if you won't, marginal
notes are forbidden).  This is freedom?
 
> The only way to fix this, which is IMHO The Right Way, is distribute the
> fonts separately with a separate license.

That's difficult when distributing an operating system with its own
filesystem and tools.  You can boot the OS, but you can't see any text
on the screen....

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