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>
>
>Just don't try to use it in a commercial product unless you have a
>commercial license or a small army of laywers to help you through the
>license morass.
>
>Compare the Plan9 license[1] with the OpenBSD license policy[2] and
>recommended license[3] sometime.
>
>-d
>
>[1] http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/license.html
>

It looks pretty straight-forward to me, no lawyers required.

the OSI seemed happy enough and that is good enough for me.



>[2] http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
>[3]
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=1.2
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