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02-18-2008, 09:33 AM
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 Re: LLVM as alternative to GCC? On 10/10/07, Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > > did you read the license? it's MIT. > > if you are so interested in the issue, email Kris Maglione or, if you > > want it, I can give you more people for you to talk about this license > > story. > > Did you read the history on this? > > Quite some time ago, we begged the Plan 9 people to BSD'ify their license. > They said, quite simply (and probably at their lawyers instruction), "no > way, we like our license as it is". > yes, I know that. > More recently, someone grabbed some of one of our developer's work, and > stuck their license and name on the top of them. We don't like that. We > did and still are raising hell over it. > As I am not directly involved in this project, I don't know what developer work you're refering to. > Now, you come along and say, "here's the Plan 9 compiler with a BSD > compatible license". Forgive us for being a tad skeptical. In order to > actually have that work, it's gotta be not the person who stuck their name > on the top, but rather ALL the people who claimed copyright on each file > that have to say, "Yes, we agree with this change". > > I'm not totally disbelieving you. Several years ago, I heard this had > happened. I went looking for evidence. I found none. Maybe it happened. > I could never find evidence, and that's not exactly something you keep > quiet. > > A link to the ATT, Lucent, Bell Labs, or Plan9 website saying, "we have > changed the license on the Plan9 compiler to MIT/BSD" would be nice. > I'm not sure what else could be considered acceptable, since as I > recall, it was their lawyers who insisted on the previous license. > > This should be an easy thing to demonstrate. But one has to understand > who has the authority to make the statement of license. > > If you disagree, may I write the license for your checking account?  > I agree with you. The only little point I was trying to make at first is: "did someone from inside OpenBSD did take a look at the *new* kencc port?". A simple "no, is there anything new?" could be a good response, I guess. iru      |
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