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From: presotto@pla... presotto@pla...
Subject: Why?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 11:14:22 -0400


>How strictly is "organisation" defined? If a group of friends form an 
>informal Plan 9 Hackers' Club, can they legally install Plan 9 on their
>machines from the same CD provided that they don't make any commercial use
>of it? Is it one of those gray areas, like copying 10-year-old Commodore
>games or taping TV programs?

Given that lawyers wrote the license, I'ld bet my
salary that its any entity that can be sued.

This is, after all, a legal document.  I assume that
at the very least the organization has to have
some sort of legal standing, i.e., that it has officers filed
somewhere that are legally and financially liable.

If you want, you can always send us a letter as the
organization (letterhead and the whole deal) and we'll
forward it to the lawyers.

Remember though: some gray areas are best left that way.