Once upon a time Theo was considering the Plan9 tool chain for the OpenBSD project. Sadly Lucent's lawyers proved not too adept and writing software licenses in

Once upon a time Theo was considering the Plan9 tool chain for the OpenBSD project. Sadly Lucent's lawyers proved not too adept and writing software licenses in what was a brave new world of OSS. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/d23e576bf06efdfb/fc507f608c6f668c?q=theo+raadt+group:comp.os.plan9#fc507f608c6f668c http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/t... The previous license was worse, it had a "make any modifications and you have to send them back to Lucent" clause. Theo was right and the world was robbed and the now the compilers are available in either GPL, LGPL, Lucent or MIT license form from the Vita Nuova Inferno project. http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/contents.html http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/contents.html And a hybrid license through Plan9Ports http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/ What a fuck up.