> I don't get the argumentations here. Everyone was happy that plan9 was > relicensed as MIT last year. If no one is allowed to make closed source > distributions of plan9 based systems than why were all unhappy with the > prior licenses.
You're confusing the license and expressed wishes. Personally I will always use MIT license whenever I can. Regardless I think it's good manners to include the source, and more true to the original intent why it's MIT licensed. If you don't do as I please, I'll continue expressing my disagreement, nothing more than that. You're as usual free to ignore it. License is coercion. I don't like that. > Years ago plan9 was licensed as GPL. 9front kept licensing > with MIT. If you expect everybody to make their products and systems fully > open sourced than you should have sticked with the GPL license. GPL has never done anything for me, why should I do anything for them? > I admired > the determination of 9front taking this step for years. Now I'm really > surprised about some remarks in this thread. BSD or MIT licensed software > encourages the use of such software in closed source products. GPL restricts > this. Hahaha. Everything I say here is just my personal opinion, not some fucking official 9front foundation official political theater. And you misunderstood it completely. I guess you really like legalese, and you thus never managed to think for even one second about the philosophy and intent behind the license. > I'm also willing to support those projects with code I thing will be of > value for others and giving them also the right to use this code open > sourced or closed source as they prefer and allowed by applying the mit > licence for my parts. I never doubted your intent either. Given that you're trying to use this for education already gave you max. points for first impression. Doesn't mean I won't technically disagree. Make with it what you will. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3e07bfdf263a83c8-M8319ff8d345f54aaaf0ef2cb Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
