This is the last time I'm going to say this: AOL (rightly) controls the work that its employees perform. AOL does not restrict what you do with AOLserver, what changes you make to it, etc. I am now the gatekeeper for what contributions (from AOL, and outside of AOL) go into the core. I don't believe that being an AOL employee has changed my attitude or behavior significantly towards the project.
It was lack of vision and clear guiedlines where AOLserver is headed, do not take it personally, you are doing great job.
But you should state this on your Web site, so other people know that AOLserver is AOL's software product, just sources are available to public in mostly read-only or copy-and-change mode.
You can make whatever changes you like to AOLserver and release the source code for those changes. The AOLserver Public License protects your very right to do so. Getting those changes integrated into the official AOL distribution is a different story, but it is not the only way to make your changes available to the public.
Do you think that the only way to get people to use your code is to have it included in the core AOLserver source distribution? If yes, why? If no, then why do you keep bringing this up as an issue?
Up to this point it was, with so small user base AOLserver name was more or less known.
Absolutely. There's nothing stopping you, or anyone else for that matter, from doing this. Well, there is one thing: a willingness to commit time and effort to doing it. Since this course of action has no bearing on AOL and AOL bears no influence on it, you can't use AOL's involvement as an excuse for why this can't be done, except for that very commitment of time and effort.
Okay, this is what i wanted to hear, now it is clear AOL's position on the source code so the fork is inevitable.
I am going to continue with multi-protocol version of AOLserver.
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