Plan 9 Copyright Transferred To Foundation, MIT Licensed Code Released

[jaypatelani]

Congratulations to plan9. They could have tried this new license https://licensezero.com/

[Palu Macil]

Congratulations to plan9. They could have tried this new license https://licensezero.com/

"License Zero will shut down in 2020." If that's a new license and they are already shutting down, I don't expect any corp lawyer to sign off on it ever. Also, I never recommend people choose a license that isn't mainstream and well understood.

[jaypatelani]

Palu Macil taking it out of context is not a good way
"License Zero will shut down in 2020 to make way for an evolved system under a new brand. Join us in the Artless Devices forum to help shape the new platform."

[Nuc!eoN]

If other old projects could "take the pledge" sharing code to be released under a public license say 15-20 years -- that'd be awesome.

This is good news but I can't imagine how it fits into the current technosphere in a useful way.

You are probably lacking proper imagination then.

[ehansin]

That was so terrible it's hard NOT to love it! xD

I definitely laughed a little. Cheesy maybe, but not bad!

[M@yeulC]

Palu Macil taking it out of context is not a good way
" under a new brand.

So... is the open license proprietary itself? :P

[Vistaus]

"License Zero will shut down in 2020." If that's a new license and they are already shutting down, I don't expect any corp lawyer to sign off on it ever. Also, I never recommend people choose a license that isn't mainstream and well understood.

So how did you recommend licences in the past? 'Cause all those mainstream licenses all started out as not-mainstream. You can't become mainstream if no one recommends you.

[ssokolow]

So how did you recommend licences in the past? 'Cause all those mainstream licenses all started out as not-mainstream. You can't become mainstream if no one recommends you.

I think the intent was that, now that there are a bunch of licenses that corporate lawyers are familiar with, there's a very strong incentive against further proliferation.

[jaypatelani]

ssokolow if we thought like that then we would never had Wayland, Linux as BSD , MINIX was already there no need to have Linux or haiku

[ssokolow]

ssokolow if we thought like that then we would never had Wayland, Linux as BSD , MINIX was already there no need to have Linux or haiku

No, it just means that the weights have changed in calculating when the benefits outweigh the downsides. It's still a pro/con calculation, just like Wayland and Linux... just one where it's much harder to find situations where it makes sense.

See The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013) for why they thought Wayland worth the effort. As for Linux, at the time, Tanenbaum's publisher was requiring that MINIX be under a license that was a deal-breaker for Torvalds and others.