RMS on Plan 9 license, with my comments
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Mon Jul 24 15:25:53 UTC 2000
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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