See comments below:

Vlad Seryakov wrote on 2/7/2005, 4:39 PM:
 > 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.

I thought a goodly number of people that don't work at AOL had commit
access. Is this not the case?


 > > 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'm confused. I don't see anything about AOL's position on the source in
the above or the preceeding conversation. The only thing I do see is a
comment that anyone is welcome to fork the code if they feel thats the
best way to go about getting the changes they want... which is a given
for open source projects.

Rob Seeger


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